Mechanical vibrations from tadpoles' flapping tails transform salamander's carnivorous morphology

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-77

  Michimae, Hirofumi ^a   Nishimura, Kinya ^a   Wakahara, Masami ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Broad headed morph; Chemical cue; Hydraulic vibration; Phenotypic plasticity; Sonic cue

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CHEMICAL CUE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CARNIVORE; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER; TADPOLE;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; HYNOBIUS RETARDATUS;

EID: 27444437188     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0242     Document Type: Article

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