Cutting the Gordian knot: Complex signaling in African cichlids is more than multimodal

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-252

  van Staaden, Moira J ^a   Smith, Adam R ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Intraspecific variability; Mate preference; Motivation; Multimodal

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE; GORDIA; PISCES;

EID: 79953287568     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.2.237     Document Type: Review

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