Challenging the aggressive spillover hypothesis: Is pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism a part of a behavioural syndrome?

Ethology

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 615-623

  Kralj Fišer, Simona ^a   Schneider, Jutta M ^b   Kuntner, Matjaž ^a,c,d  

^a ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; CANNIBALISM; CONSPECIFIC; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; HERITABILITY;

EID: 84879795196     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12111     Document Type: Article

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