Balancing the competing requirements of air-breathing and display behaviour during male-male interactions in Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 363-367

  Alton, Lesley A ^a   Portugal, Steven J ^b   White, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agonistic behaviour; Bimodal gas exchange; Metabolic rate; Opercular flaring

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BETTA SPLENDENS; BREATHING; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FIGHTING; FISH; GILL; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDATION; RESPIROMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 84870954365     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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