The courtship-inhibiting pheromone is ignored by female-deprived gregarious desert locust males

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 525-527

  Seidelmann, Karsten ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Courtship inhibiting pheromone; Desert locust; Mating strategy; Postcopulatory guarding; Signal ignorance

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

HORMONE; INHIBITOR; LOCUST; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE ATTRACTION; MATE GUARDING; SIGNALING;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; LOCUST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

HEXAPODA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 33845592259     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0552     Document Type: Article

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