Air-movement 'signals' are not required for female mounting during courtship in the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 513-518

  Pollack, G S ^a   Givois, V ^a   Balakrishnan, R ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Cerci; Communication; Multimodal; Near field

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031792859     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050276     Document Type: Article

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