A high aggression strategy for smaller males

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Svensson, P Andreas ^a,b   Lehtonen, Topi K ^b,c   Wong, Bob B M ^b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; CHLAMYDOGOBIUS EREMIUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE ANIMAL; FISH; HUMAN; MALE; MATING; NESTING;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FISHES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PERCIFORMES; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84865060333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043121     Document Type: Article

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