Behavioural responses of hermit crabs to shell cues, predator haemolymph and body odour

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 737-751

  Rittschof, Dan ^a   Hazlett, Brian A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES; BODY ODOUR; CHEMICAL CUE; CHEMICAL STIMULI; HAEMOLYMPH; HERMIT CRAB; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STONE CRAB;

CLIBANARIUS VITTATUS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; MENIPPE MERCENARIA; MERCENARIA;

EID: 0030875504     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s002531540003616x     Document Type: Article

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