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Lateralized Kinematics of Predation Behavior in a Lake Tanganyika Scale-Eating Cichlid Fish

Behavioral lateralization has been documented in many vertebrates. The scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis is well known for exhibiting lateral dimorphism in its mouth morphology and lateralized behavior in robbing scales from prey fish. A previous field study indicated that this mouth a...

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Autores principales: Takeuchi, Yuichi, Hori, Michio, Oda, Yoichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22238598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029272