Male courtship pheromones increase female receptivity in a plethodontid salamander

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 729-734

  Houck, Lynne D ^a   Reagan, Nancy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; PHEROMONE; SALAMANDER;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEUS; PLETHODONTIDAE;

EID: 0025262716     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80384-7     Document Type: Article

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