Escaping away from and towards a threat: The cockroach's strategy for staying alive

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 497-500

  Domenici, Paolo ^a   Booth, David ^b   Blagburn, Jonathan M ^c   Bacon, Jonathan P ^b  

^a CNR IAMC Localita Sa Mardini   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Anti predator behavior; Cockroaches; Escape response; Locomotion; Protean behavior; Sensory hairs; Wind stimulation

Indexed keywords

BLATTARIA; PROTEA;

EID: 77951959258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.6.9408     Document Type: Article

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