Insect-like olfactory adaptations in the terrestrial giant robber crab

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 116-121

  Stensmyr, Marcus C ^a   Erland, Susanne ^a   Hallberg, Eric ^b   Wallén, Rita ^b   Greenaway, Peter ^c   Hansson, Bill S ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; INSECT; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ODORS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BIRGUS LATRO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GECARCINIDAE; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 12544253485     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.12.069     Document Type: Article

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