Ultrasonic communication and sexual selection in wax moths: Female choice based on energy and asynchrony of male signals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1095-1106

  Jang, Yikweon ^a   Greenfield, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ACHROIA GRISELLA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0030131630     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0111     Document Type: Article

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