Multi-modal courtship in the peacock spider, Maratus volans (O.P.-Cambridge, 1874)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Girard, Madeline B ^a   Kasumovic, Michael M ^b   Elias, Damian O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COURTSHIP; DANCING; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPIDER; STEREOTYPY; VIBRATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; SALTICIDAE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT; SPIDERS; VIBRATION; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 80053184172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025390     Document Type: Article

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