Dine or dash? Turbulence inhibits blue crab navigation in attractive-aversive odor plumes by altering signal structure encoded by the olfactory pathway

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 4175-4182

  Weissburg, Marc ^a   Atkins, Lorin ^a   Berkenkamp, Kimberly ^a   Mankin, Danielle ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemosensation; Olfactory tracking; Predation risk; Risk assessment; Risk sensitivity; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRACHYURA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; LIMB; MALE; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BRACHYURA; CUES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GEORGIA; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WATER MOVEMENTS;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84869179667     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.077255     Document Type: Article

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