Toward identifying sex pheromones in blue crabs: Using biomarker targeting within the context of evolutionary chemical ecology

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1170, Issue , 2009, Pages 456-461

  Kamio, Michiya ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Callinectes sapidus; Chemical communication; Chemoreception; Courtship display; Habitat dependent signaling; Portunid; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COURTSHIP; CRAB; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATING; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URINE;

ANIMALIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; PORTUNIDAE;

EID: 68649118865     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03901.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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