Coordinated group response to nest intruders in social shrimp

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-52

  Tóth, Eva ^a,b   Duffy, J Emmett ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Communication; Defence; Shrimp; Social evolution; Synalpheus

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; CRUSTACEAN; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHRIMP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALPHEIDAE; ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEXAPODA; SYNALPHEUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27444440608     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0237     Document Type: Article

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