Tuning in to multiple predators: Conflicting demands for shell morphology in a freshwater snail

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2184-2191

  Lakowitz, Thomas ^a   BrÖnmark, Christer ^a   NystrÖm, Per ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemical cues; Complementary traits; Inducible defence; Phenotypic plasticity; Radix balthica

Indexed keywords

ASTACOIDEA; BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS; RADIX BALTHICA; TINCA; TINCA TINCA;

EID: 53249130867     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02045.x     Document Type: Article

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