Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish
A. P. Bose, J. Windorfer, F. Ronco, A. Boehm, A. Indermaur, W. Salzburger, A. L. Jordan
The paper uses 3D-printed shell replicas to study preference functions in cichlid fish, finding that intactness, length, and aperture width are key factors in shelter choice.
bioRxiv · Mar 16, 2020Evolutionary Biology