The function of concurrent signals: Visual and chemical communication in snapping shrimp

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 247-257

  Hughes, Melissa ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHEIDAE; ALPHEUS HETEROCHAELIS; ANIMALIA; CHELA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DECAPODA;

CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION; SNAPPING SHRIMP;

EID: 0030201417     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0170     Document Type: Article

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