High in situ repeatability of behaviour indicates animal personality in the beadlet anemone actinia equina (Cnidaria)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Briffa, Mark ^a   Greenaway, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIFESPAN; MICROHABITAT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SEA ANEMONE; STARTLE REFLEX; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANEMONE; ANIMAL; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACTINIA EQUINA; ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA;

ANEMONE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GREAT BRITAIN; PERSONALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STARTLE REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79959984915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021963     Document Type: Article

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