Female responses to isolated signals from multimodal male courtship displays in the wolf spider genus Schizocosa (Araneae: Lycosidae)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 865-872

  Hebets, Eileen A ^a,b   Uetz, George W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; COURTSHIP; SIGNAL; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; LYCOSIDAE; SCHIZOCOSA DUPLEX; SCHIZOCOSA UETZI;

EID: 0033118165     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1048     Document Type: Article

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