Seeing and smelling mates: multimodal integration and visual gating of chemical cues in female mate-location behavior in the prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Felipe Pernambuco da Costa, Maria de Fátima Arruda, Karina Ribeiro, Daniel Marques Almeida Pessoa
This study investigates how visual and chemical cues influence mate-location behavior in prawns, finding that spatially congruent multimodal signals are necessary for effective mate searching.
bioRxiv · May 15, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition