Balancing the dilution and oddity effects: Decisions depend on body size

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Rodgers, Gwendolen M ^a   Ward, Jonathan R ^a   Askwith, Beth ^a   Morrell, Lesley J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; FRESHWATER FISH; GROUP DYNAMICS; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POECILLIA RETICULATA; PREDATION RISK; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; POECILIA RETICULATA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POECILIA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959920597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014819     Document Type: Article

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