Fish odour triggers conspecific attraction behaviour in an aquatic invertebrate

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 458-460

  Kullmann, Harald ^a   Thünken, Timo ^a   Baldauf, Sebastian A ^a   Bakker, Theo C M ^a   Frommen, Joachim G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphipoda; Crustacea; Gammarus pulex; Group; Olfactory cues; Shoaling

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONSPECIFIC; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; FISH; GAMMARUS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; GAMMARIDAE; GAMMARUS PULEX; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51549113442     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0246     Document Type: Article

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