Energetic cost of sexual attractiveness: Ultrasonic advertisement in wax moths

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 905-913

  Reinhold, Klaus ^a,c   Greenfield, Michael D ^a   Jang, Yikweon ^a   Broce, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISEMENT CALL; ATTRACTIVENESS; ENERGETIC COST; LESSER WAX MOTH; SIGNALLING; ULTRASONIC SIGNALLING;

ACHROIA GRISELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE;

EID: 0032055677     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0594     Document Type: Article

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