Same-sized fish groups increase aggressive interaction of sex-reversed males Nile tilapia GIFT strain

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 154-159

  Boscolo, Camila Nomura Pereira ^a   Morais, Rosana Nogueira ^b   Gonçalves de Freitas, Eliane ^a,c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c Research Center on Animal Welfare (RECAW)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Cichlidae; Social instability; Social stress; Welfare

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL WELFARE; BIOENERGETICS; CICHLID; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HORMONE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INJURY; PLASMA; RANKING; REARING; SEX REVERSAL; STEROID;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 82555169534     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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