Swordtail fry attend to chemical and visual cues in detecting predators and conspecifics.
Predation pressure and energy requirements present particularly salient opposing selective pressures on young fish. Thus, fry are expected to possess sophisticated means of detecting predators and resources. Here we tested the hypotheses that fry of the swordtail fish Xiphophorus birchmanni use chem...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-12-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1762321?pdf=render |