Chemosensory cues allow male lizards Psammodromus algirus to override visual concealment of sexual identity by satellite males

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 218-224

  López, Pilar ^a   Martín, José ^a   Cuadrado, Mariano ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b Zoológico de Jerez ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemoreception; Lizards; Male male competition; Ontogenetic conditional tactic; Social signals

Indexed keywords

CHEMORECEPTION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); MALE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

AMPHIBIA; PSAMMODROMUS ALGIRUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0042977278     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-003-0623-2     Document Type: Article

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