Electrical signalling of dominance in a wild population of electric fish

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-200

  Fugère, Vincent ^a   Ortega, Hernán ^a   Krahe, Rü Diger ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

Author keywords

Communication; Dominance; Sternarchorhynchus; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BODY SIZE; DOMINANCE; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SIGNALING; TELEOST; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; GYMNOTIFORMES; STERNARCHORHYNCHUS;

EID: 79954455821     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0804     Document Type: Article

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