Male horseshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus use multiple sensory cues to locate mates

Current Zoology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 485-498

  Saunders, Katharine M ^a   Brockmann, H Jane ^a   Watson III, Winsor H ^b   Jury, Steven H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Horseshoe crabs; Mating cues; Multimodal communication; Sensory system

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 77958160227     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/56.5.485     Document Type: Article

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