New kind of polarotaxis governed by degree of polarization: Attraction of tabanid flies to differently polarizing host animals and water surfaces

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 407-416

  Egri, Ádám ^a   Blahó, Miklós ^a   Sándor, András ^a   Kriska, György ^a,c   Gyurkovszky, Mónika ^b   Farkas, Róbert ^b   Horváth, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Degree of polarization; Direction of polarization; Host choice; Polarization vision; Polarotaxis; Tabanid fly; Visual ecology; Water detection

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC ORGANISM; FLY; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIGHT EFFECT; MATE ATTRACTION; POLARIZATION; TAXONOMY; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FLY; LIGHT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DIPTERA; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; WATER;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; TABANIDAE;

EID: 84863717151     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0916-2     Document Type: Article

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