Jail baits: how and why nymphs mimic adult females of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1097-1105

  Eliyahu, Dorit ^a   Nojima, Satoshi ^a   Mori, Kenji ^b   Schal, Coby ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOYO GOSEI CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTENNA; BAIT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COCKROACH; CUTICLE; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; LIPID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIMICRY; NUPTIAL GIFT; SECRETION; SEX PHEROMONE; SEXUAL MATURITY;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA;

EID: 70350048382     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.035     Document Type: Article

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