Integrating personality research and animal contest theory: Aggressiveness in the green swordtail xiphophorus helleri

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Wilson, Alastair J ^a   de Boer, Marloes ^a   Arnott, Gareth ^b   Grimmer, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERI;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESEARCH;

EID: 82355194609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028024     Document Type: Article

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