Environmental and genetic background of tiptoe-initiating behaviour in the dwarfspider Erigone atra

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 169-174

  Bonte, Dries ^a   Deblauwe, Isra ^a   Maelfait, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENETICS; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ERIGONE ATRA; INVERTEBRATA; LINYPHIIDAE;

EID: 0041811881     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2191     Document Type: Article

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