Anti-predator responses to conspecific and heterospecific skin extracts by threespine sticklebacks: Alarm pheromones revisited

Behaviour

Volumn 134, Issue 15-16, 1997, Pages 1123-1134

  Brown, Grant E ^a,b   Godin, Jean Guy J ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm pheromone; Anti predator behaviour; Ostariophysan fishes; Threespine stickleback

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031327401     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853997x00098     Document Type: Article

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