Gravidity-Associated Shoaling Decisions in Three-Spined Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1149-1156

  Frommen, Joachim G ^a,b   Bakker, Theo C M ^b   Proscurcin, Leonie C ^b   Mehlis, Marion ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SURVIVAL; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 84869870297     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12019     Document Type: Article

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