'Winner effect' without winning: Unresolved social conflicts increase the probability of winning a subsequent contest in a cichlid fish

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 489-492

  Dijkstra, Peter D ^a,b   Schaafsma, Sara M ^a   Hofmann, Hans A ^b   Groothuis, Ton G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Androgens; Challenge hypothesis; Cichlid; Winner effect

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; SEX HORMONE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIGHTING; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CICHLIDS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053476841     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.08.029     Document Type: Article

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