Male fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas Rafinesque) retain their fright reaction to alarm substance during the breeding season
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Vol. 54 (12), 2230-2231
- https://doi.org/10.1139/z76-255
Abstract
In laboratory and field tests, breeding male fathead minnows respond to conspecific skin extract with a fright reaction despite their own seasonal loss of alarm substance cells. Their fright reaction is facilitated by the presence of other fatheads.Keywords
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- Seasonal loss of alarm substance cells in North American cyprinoid fishes and its relation to abrasive spawning behaviourCanadian Journal of Zoology, 1976