Collective signals in treehopper broods provide predator localization cues to the defending mother

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 697-704

  Ramaswamy, Karthik ^a   Cocroft, Reginald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

collective behaviour; cue; functional significance; group signalling; treehopper; Umbonia crassicornis

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; HOST PLANT; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANTHOPPER; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIGNALING;

ANIMALIA; UMBONIA CRASSICORNIS;

EID: 69249220074     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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