Surface chemicals inform about sex and breeding status in the biparental burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-185

  Steiger, Sandra ^a   Whitlow, Sonia ^a   Peschke, Klaus ^a   Müller, Josef K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; MATE RECOGNITION;

COLEOPTERA; EQUUS ASINUS; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58449126080     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01600.x     Document Type: Article

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