Detection of the sexual identity of conspecifics through volatile chemical signals in a territorial salamander

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 214-222

  Dantzer, Benjamin J ^a   Jaeger, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST FLOOR; SEX PHEROMONE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRITORIALITY; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

PLETHODON CINEREUS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 33847152951     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01322.x     Document Type: Article

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