Mate-odour identification by both sexes of Evarcha culicivora, an East African jumping spider

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-79

  Cross, Fiona R ^a   Jackson, Robert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Mate identification; Mating systems; Olfaction; Pheromones; Salticidae

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; JUVENILE; MATE CHOICE; MATE RECOGNITION; ODOR; OLFACTION; PHEROMONE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SPIDER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SPIDER; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; CULICIVORA; EVARCHA; SALTICIDAE;

EID: 63349109076     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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