2025/08/11 by Ry Dennis, Kelsey Wood, Suzy C. P. Renn +1
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities #Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
paper · doi:10.17912/micropub.biology.001795
, a biparental cichlid that forms female-larger pairs , respond to conspecific intruders of either sex. When males were the larger individual in the pair, they have increased responses to male intruders compared to female intruders; whereas when females were the larger individual, they did not change their behavior. We suggest the pressures on both sexes are different based on the natural history of the species.