Contest experience enhances aggressive behaviour in a fly: When losers learn to win

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Benelli, Giovanni ^a   Desneux, Nicolas ^b   Romano, Donato ^a   Conte, Giuseppe ^a   Messing, Russell H ^c   Canale, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DIPTERA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIPTERA; MALE;

EID: 84925359458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09347     Document Type: Article

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