Male red-backed salamanders can determine the reproductive status of conspecific females through volatile chemical signals

Herpetologica

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 176-183

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Chemoreception; Pheromones; Plethodon cinereus; Randomization statistic; Reproductive status; Social monogamy

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AMPHIBIAN; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PHEROMONE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SIGNALING;

PLETHODON CINEREUS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 34547406319     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[176:MRSCDT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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