Survival benefit to antipredator behavior in the amphipod Gammarus minus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in response to injury-released chemical cues from conspecifics and heterospecifics

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 407-414

  Wisenden, Brian D ^a,b   Cline, Alecia ^a   Sparkes, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CRUSTACEAN; FITNESS; PREDATION RISK; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIPODA; GAMMARUS MINUS; ISOPODA; LEPOMIS CYANELLUS; LIRCEUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0033060282     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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