Exposure to multiple sensory cues as a juvenile affects adult female mate preferences in wolf spiders

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 419-426

  Rutledge, Jenai M ^a   Miller, Amber ^a   Uetz, George W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Mate choice; Multimodal communication; Plasticity; Subadult experience; Wolf spider

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AVOIDANCE REACTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; JUVENILE; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA; LYCOSIDAE; SCHIZOCOSA; SCHIZOCOSA ROVNERI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955578209     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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