Artificial selection on relative brain size in the guppy reveals costs and benefits of evolving a larger brain

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 168-171

  Kotrschal, Alexander ^a   Rogell, Björn ^a   Bundsen, Andreas ^a   Svensson, Beatrice ^a   Zajitschek, Susanne ^a   Brännström, Ioana ^a   Immler, Simone ^a   Maklakov, Alexei A ^a   Kolm, Niclas ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POECILIA; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LEARNING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; POECILIA; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872676648     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.058     Document Type: Article

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