Line-following preferences of male crab spiders, Misumena vatia

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 717-724

  Leonard, Anne S ^a,b   Morse, Douglass H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAGLINE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; MALE BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; CTENIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MISUMENA VATIA; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 33644656965     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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