Causes and consequences of contest outcome: Aggressiveness, dominance and growth in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1151-1161

  Wilson, Alastair J ^a   Grimmer, Andrew ^a   Rosenthal, Gil G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas de Las Huastecas Aguazarca 16 de Septiembre   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aggression; Competition; Dominance; Personality; Resource dependence; Xiphophorus

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; FISH; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMALIA; ARCHOSARGUS PROBATOCEPHALUS; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS BIRCHMANNI;

EID: 84878927675     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1540-7     Document Type: Article

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