Chemically mediated fright response in southern toad (Bufo terrestris) Tadpoles

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 1998, Pages 445-450

  Lefcort, Hugh ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM RESPONSE; ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOUR; CHEMICAL CUE; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; SOUTHERN TOAD; TADPOLE;

AMPHIUMA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANURA; BUFO TERRESTRIS; CHAENOBRYTTUS GULOSUS; FELIDAE; LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS GULOSUS; PANTHERA PARDUS; PISCES; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA; RANA UTRICULARIA; SIREN; SIREN INTERMEDIA; SIREN INTERMEDIA INTERMEDIA; SIRENIDAE; UTRICULARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032079744     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447439     Document Type: Article

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