Can the ratio of aromatic skeletons explain cross-species responses within evolutionarily conserved Ostariophysan alarm cues?: Testing the purine-ratio hypothesis

Chemoecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-96

  Kelly, Jocelyn M ^a   Adrian Jr , James C ^b   Brown, Grant E ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical alarm cue; Cross species responses; Hemigrammus erythrozonus; Ostariophysan fishes; Predation; Prey guilds

Indexed keywords

CHARACIDAE; HEMIGRAMMUS ERYTHROZONUS; OSTARIOPHYSAN; OSTARIOPHYSI; PISCES;

EID: 33744501523     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-005-0333-5     Document Type: Article

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