Slime-trail tracking in the predatory snail, Euglandina rosea

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1086-1095

  Clifford, Kavan T ^b   Gross, Liaini ^b   Johnson, Kwame ^b   Martin, Khalil J ^b   Shaheen, Nagma ^a   Harrington, Melissa A ^a  

^a DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUTAMIC ACID; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EYE TRACKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREY; PREY SELECTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HELIX (SNAILS); ODORS; PHEROMONES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMELL; SNAILS;

EID: 0141885158     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.5.1086     Document Type: Article

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