Non-sex-biased dominance in a sexually monomorphic electric fish: Fight structure and submissive electric signalling

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 398-410

  Batista, Gervasio ^a   Zubizarreta, Lucía ^a   Perrone, Rossana ^a   Silva, Ana ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BODY SIZE; BREEDING SEASON; DOMINANCE; ELECTRIC FIELD; FISH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

GYMNOTUS;

EID: 84858284221     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02022.x     Document Type: Article

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