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ArticleBiology letters2020

Consistency in the strength of laterality in male, but not female, guppies across different behavioural contexts.

Stephanie McLean, Lesley J Morrell

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Article in Biology letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Visual Lateralisation in Female GuppiesEcology and evolution · 2025
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  5. Laterality in the Damaraland Mole-Rat: Insights from a Eusocial Mammal.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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  9. Sex differences in the predictability of risk-taking behavior.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stephanie McLeanDepartment of Biological & Marine Sciences, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
Lesley J MorrellDepartment of Biological & Marine Sciences, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Laterality, the division of brain functions into separate hemispheres, is widespread across animal taxa. Lateralized individuals exhibit cognitive advantages yet substantial variation in laterality exists, particularly between the sexes. Why variation is maintained is unknown as few studies consider differences in lateralized behaviours between the sexes, and their underlying selection pressures, across different contexts. We investigated if

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PoeciliaAnimalsBehavior, AnimalFemaleFunctional LateralityMaleSex CharacteristicsSocial Behaviorbehavioural lateralitycerebral lateralizationconsistency of lateralityPoecilia reticulatasex-differences

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PMID32396786
PMCPMC7280045

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