Female attraction to conspecific chemical cues in the palmate newt Triturus helveticus

Ethology

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 726-735

  Secondi, Jean ^a   Haerty, Wilfried ^a   Lodé, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CHEMICAL CUE; MATE CHOICE; OLFACTION;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; GASTROPODA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITURUS HELVETICUS;

EID: 22544477104     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01096.x     Document Type: Article

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