The spatial and temporal patterns of odors sampled by lobsters and crabs in a turbulent plume

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3138-3153

  Reidenbach, Matthew A ^a   Koehl, M A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetasc; Antennule; Blue crab; Callinectes sapidus; Chemoreception; Lobster; Olfaction; Panulirus argus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; FLOW KINETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; ODOR; PALINURIDAE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BRACHYURA; EXTREMITIES; ODORS; PALINURIDAE; RHEOLOGY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ANIMALIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LOBSTER; PALINURIDAE; PANULIRUS ARGUS;

EID: 80052244325     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.057547     Document Type: Article

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