Sexual incompatibility and geographical variation in mate recognition systems: Tests in the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-287

  Herring, Kimberley ^b   Verrell, Paul ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; DESMOGNATHUS FUSCUS; DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEUS; PLETHODONTIDAE;

MATE RECOGNITION; MOUNTAIN DUSKY SALAMANDER;

EID: 0030451429     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0173     Document Type: Article

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