Mate location tactics in garter snakes: Effects of rival males, interrupted trails and non-pheromonal cues

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1017-1024

  Shine, R ^a   Webb, J K ^a   Lane, A ^a   Mason, R T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoreception; Olfaction; Sexual selection; Vision; Vomeronasal

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LABORATORY METHOD; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE LOCATION; PHEROMONE; RESEARCH WORK; SCENT MARKING; SNAKE; SUBSTRATE; TESTING METHOD; VISUAL CUE;

SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS PARIETALIS;

EID: 33845524971     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.01063.x     Document Type: Article

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