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Zur Temperaturabhängigkeit der Balz männlicher Guppys, Poecilia reticulata Peters (Pisces, Cyprinidae)
Author(s) -
Laudien Helmut,
Fechner Wolfgang,
Schumann Wolfgang
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
zeitschrift für tierpsychologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1439-0310
pISSN - 0044-3573
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1980.tb00701.x
Subject(s) - poecilia , cyprinidae , poeciliidae , adaptation (eye) , biology , zoology , fishery , fish <actinopterygii> , neuroscience
In poikilothermal animals, modes of behaviour as well as other physiological functions are dependent on the environmental temperature. Individual adaptation can decrease or cancel out this dependency. In experiments involving abrupt and slow temperature changes, we were able to prove temperature compensations and stress effects in the courting behaviour of the male Poecilia reticulata .