Chemical cues and binary individual recognition in the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-29

  Gherardi, Francesca ^a   Tiedemann, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical cues; Hermit crabs; Individual recognition; Multimodality; Pagurus longicarpus

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHEMICAL CUE; OLFACTION; RECOGNITION;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; PAGURUS; PAGURUS LONGICARPUS;

EID: 2542474567     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836904004807     Document Type: Article

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