Science News Online (4/24/99): References for "Long-sought migration trigger stinks"

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Volume 155, Number 17 (April 24, 1999)

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Long-sought migration trigger stinks

One of the long-sought chemical triggers for the migration of an aquatic species may be TMA, an element of fish odor that signals waterfleas to swim deeper.

References:

Boriss, H., M. Boersma, and K.H. Wiltshire. 1999. Trimethylamine induces migration of waterfleas. Nature 398(April 1):382.

Further Readings:

1999. Ecology And Evolution of Inducible Defenses. R. Tollrian, and C.D. Harvell, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Milius, S. 1999. Amoeba betrayed by anticannibal defense. Science News 155(March 20):182.

Sources:

Hinnerk Boriss
Max-Planck-Institute für Limnologie
Postfach 165
24302 Plön
Germany

Stanley Dodson
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Zoology
Birge Hall
430 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706