Multimodal communication and mate choice in wolf spiders: female response to multimodal versus unimodal signals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 299-305

  Uetz, George W ^a   Roberts, J Andrew ^b   Taylor, Phillip W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lycosidae; mate choice; multimodal communication; Schizocosa ocreata; Schizocosa rovneri; seismic signal; vibration signal; visual signal; wolf spider

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COURTSHIP; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; SIBLING; SIGNAL; SPIDER; VISUAL CUE;

ARANEAE; LYCOSIDAE; SCHIZOCOSA; SCHIZOCOSA OCREATA; SCHIZOCOSA ROVNERI;

EID: 68349160840     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.023     Document Type: Article

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