Consummatory feeding movements in Aplysia fasciata are facilitated by conspecifics with access to mates, by reproductive tract homogenates and by bag cell peptides

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-181

  Blumberg, S ^a   Susswein, A J ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aplysia; Atrial gland; Egg laying hormone; Peptide; Pheromone

Indexed keywords

APLYSIA FASCIATA;

EID: 0031881816     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050168     Document Type: Article

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