Lack of a pheromonal sense in phytosaurs and other archosaurs, and its implications for reproductive communication

Paleobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 544-550

  Senter, Phil ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSTEOLOGY; PHEROMONE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TETRAPOD;

ARCHOSAURIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); PHYTOSAURIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036764837     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0544:LOAPSI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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