Double Deception: Ant-Mimicking Spiders Elude Both Visually- and Chemically-Oriented Predators

Divya Uma; Caitlin Durkee; Gudrun Herzner; Martha Weiss

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079660

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Double Deception: Ant-Mimicking Spiders Elude Both Visually- and Chemically-Oriented Predators

Divya Uma ,

* E-mail: dbuorama@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America, School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Trivandrum, India
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Caitlin Durkee,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America
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Gudrun Herzner,

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Martha Weiss

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., United States of America
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Double Deception: Ant-Mimicking Spiders Elude Both Visually- and Chemically-Oriented Predators

Divya Uma,
Caitlin Durkee,
Gudrun Herzner,
Martha Weiss

Published: November 13, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079660

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