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Transition from sea to land: olfactory function and constraints in the terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus

The ability to identify chemical cues in the environment is essential to most animals. Apart from marine larval stages, anomuran land hermit crabs (Coenobita) have evolved different degrees of terrestriality, and thus represent an excellent opportunity to investigate adaptations of the olfactory sys...

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Autores principales: Krång, Anna-Sara, Knaden, Markus, Steck, Kathrin, Hansson, Bill S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22673356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0596