Olfactory search-image use by a mosquito-eating predator

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1697, 2010, Pages 3173-3178

  Cross, Fiona R ^a,b   Jackson, Robert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cognition; Mosquitoes; Olfaction; Salticidae; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HEMOPHAGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATE CHOICE; MOSQUITO; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER;

EAST AFRICA;

ARANEAE; CULICIVORA; EVARCHA; LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA; SALTICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956940148     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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