Multimodal Floral Signals and Moth Foraging Decisions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Riffell, Jeffrey A ^a   Alarcón, Ruben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAVE PALMERI; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATURA WRIGHTII; FLOWER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MANDUCA SEXTA; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; ODOR; REWARD; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; MOTHS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84882648267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072809     Document Type: Article

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