Electric signals: Predation, sex, and environmental constraints

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue , 2002, Pages 201-242

  Stoddard, Philip K ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 23044529730     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3454(02)80009-2     Document Type: Article

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