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Variation in anti-predator behavior among five strains of inbred guppies, Poecilia reticulata.
Behavior genetics - 1 Sept 2006
Bleakley Bronwyn H, Martell Christopher M, Brodie Edmund D
Abstract excerpt
Quantitative genetic studies frequently utilize inbred strains of animals as tools for partitioning the direct and indirect effects of genes from environmental effects in generating an observed phenotype, however, this approach is rarely applied to behavioral studies. Guppies, Poecilia reticulata, perform a set of anti-predator behaviors that may provide an ideal system to study how complex behavioral traits are...
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