Development of aggressive phenotypes in zebrafish: Interactions of age, experience and social status

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 245-252

  Ricci, Lesley ^a   Summers, Cliff H ^b,c   Larson, Earl T ^a   O'Malley, Donald ^a   Melloni, Richard H ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Danio rerio; Development; Dominant subordinate; Experience; Ontogeny; Social hierarchy; Social stress; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; AGGRESSION; CYPRINID; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84880707347     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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