Choose Your Weapon: Defensive Behavior Is Associated with Morphology and Performance in Scorpions

Arie van der Meijden; Pedro Lobo Coelho; Pedro Sousa; Anthony Herrel

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078955

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Choose Your Weapon: Defensive Behavior Is Associated with Morphology and Performance in Scorpions

Arie van der Meijden ,

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Affiliation CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
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Pedro Lobo Coelho,

Affiliation CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
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Pedro Sousa,

Affiliation CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
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Anthony Herrel

Affiliation UMR 7179, Muséum National d′Histoire Naturelle, Département d′Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Paris, France
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Choose Your Weapon: Defensive Behavior Is Associated with Morphology and Performance in Scorpions

Arie van der Meijden,
Pedro Lobo Coelho,
Pedro Sousa,
Anthony Herrel

Published: November 13, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078955

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