Kin recognition by phenotype matching is family- rather than self-referential in juvenile cichlid fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 451-457

  Hesse, Saskia ^a   Bakker, Theo C M ^a   Baldauf, Sebastian A ^a   Thünken, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Cross fostering; Kin discrimination; Pelvicachromis taeniatus; Phenotype matching

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; CHEMICAL CUE; CICHLID; IMPRINTING; JUVENILE; KIN RECOGNITION; MATE CHOICE; OLFACTORY CUE; PHENOTYPE; SIBLING;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; PELVICACHROMIS PULCHER; PELVICACHROMIS TAENIATUS;

EID: 84864129164     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.05.021     Document Type: Article

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