Evidence for long-range chemoreceptive tracking of food odour in deep-sea scavengers by scanning sonar data

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 285-286, Issue , 2003, Pages 283-294

  Premke, Katrin ^a   Muyakshin, Sergej ^b   Klages, Michael ^a   Wegner, Jan ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chemoreception; Deep sea; Eurythenes gryllus; Spatio temporal attraction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; CHEMORECEPTION; DEEP SEA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ODOR; OPTICAL METHOD; SONAR;

AMPHIPODA; EURYTHENES; EURYTHENES GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS; LETHRINIDAE;

EID: 0037433216     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(02)00533-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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