Chemicals of Predatory Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) Influence Selection of Oviposition Site by Culex Mosquitoes
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Chemical Ecology
- Vol. 28 (4) , 797-806
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015292827514
Abstract
Ovipositing insects may avoid aquatic sites where there is high predation risk to their offspring, but the proximate mechanisms that mediate avoidance behavior are poorly resolved. We conducted an...Keywords
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