Investigating the Effect of Familiarity on Kin Recognition of Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Ethology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 531-539

  Frommen, Joachim G ^a,b   Zala, Sarah M ^a   Raveh, Shirley ^a,c   Schaedelin, Franziska C ^a   Wernisch, Bettina ^a   Hettyey, Attila ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; INLAND FISHERY; KIN RECOGNITION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84877335491     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12091     Document Type: Article

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