Hatching responses of four newt species to predatory fish chemical cues

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 635-645

  Orizaola, Germán ^a   Braña, Florentino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; HATCHING; LIFE HISTORY; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATION;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SALMO; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; TRITURUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 8144222091     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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