Reporter and Curator: Dr. Sudipta Saha, Ph.D. In an African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni, fertile females select a mate and perform a stereotyped spawning / mating routine, offering quantifiable behavioral outputs of neural circuits. A male fish attracts a fertile female by rapidly quivering his brightly colored body. If she chooses him, he guides her back to his […]![]()
