Plastic responses to parents and predators lead to divergent shoaling behaviour in sticklebacks

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 759-769

  Kozak, G M ^a,c   Boughman, J W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Animal Biology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Parental care; Paternal effects; Phenotypic plasticity; Predation; Schooling; Transgenerational plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIRD; DIVERGENCE; JUVENILE; PATERNAL EFFECT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLEISTOCENE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS; LAKE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LAKES; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA;

AVES; GASTEROSTEUS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84858340468     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02471.x     Document Type: Article

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