Smelling Danger - Alarm Cue Responses in the Polychaete Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor (Müller, 1776) to Potential Fish Predation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Schaum, C Elisa ^a,b   Batty, Robert ^a   Last, Kim S ^a  

^a DUNSTAFFNAGE MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ALARM CUE RESPONSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC HERRING; BEHAVIOR; BURROWING SPECIES; CHEMICAL CUE; CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION READING SYSTEM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FLOUNDER; FORAGE; HABITUATION; INTERTIDAL SPECIES; MARINE SPECIES; NEREIS DIVERSICOLOR; NONHUMAN; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; POLYCHAETA; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; RISK REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CUES; FLOUNDER; MUCUS; POLYCHAETA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWATER; SMELL;

EID: 84885408432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077431     Document Type: Article

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