Male horseshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus use multiple sensory cues to locate mates

The use of multisensory cues to locate mates can increase an organism’s success by acting as a back-up plan when one system fails, by providing additional information to the receiver, and by increasing their ability to detect mates using senses that have different ranges in a variable aquatic enviro...

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Main Author: Katharine M. SAUNDERS, H. Jane BROCKMANN, Winsor H. WATSON III, Steven H. JURY
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2010-08-01
Series:Current Zoology
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Online Access:http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=11673