Female preference for fly song: Playback experiments confirm the targets of sexual selection

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 713-717

  Ritchie, Michael G ^a   Townhill, Richard M ^a   Hoikkala, Anneli ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FLY; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MONTANA; DROSOPHILIDAE;

EID: 0032168671     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0799     Document Type: Article

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