[Zbrafish] Re: ratio males/females

[françois]

On May 12, 10:00 am, Sophie Louwette <sophielouwe... from hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Lately we are having problems with raising our zebrafish. The survival rate is fine (70%-80%) but the majority of them are males. We keep our fish on 26°C and not too crowded. I was wondering if there are correlations between temperature and density and the ratio of females/males. Maybe you can give us some advice on this issue.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sophie
>
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you can have a look at this paper:
2005 Animal Behaviour , 69, 1317–1323
Male territoriality mediates density and sex ratio effects on
oviposition in the zebrafish, Danio rerio
Rowena Spence,  and Carl Smith
Francois