Aggressive females become aggressive males in a sex-changing reef fish

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 986-992

  Sprenger, Dennis ^a   Dingemanse, Niels J ^b,c   Dochtermann, Ned A ^d   Theobald, Jennifer ^a   Walker, Stefan P W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Behavioural consistency; Behavioural syndrome; Behavioural variation; Hermaphroditism; Intersexual correlation; Intralocus sexual conflict; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; CORRELATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HERMAPHRODITISM; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; PERCIFORM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REEF; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CORAL REEF; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CORAL REEFS; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FISHES; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; PARAPERCIS CYLINDRICA;

EID: 84864000811     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01819.x     Document Type: Article

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