Mating preference functions of individual female barking treefrogs, Hyla gratiosa, for two properties of male advertisement calls

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 660-669

  Murphy, Christopher G ^a,b   Gerhardt, H Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mate choice; Mating preferences; Playback experiments; Preference functions; Repeatability; Sexual selection; Treefrogs

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; FROG; MATE CHOICE;

HYLA GRATIOSA;

EID: 0034020552     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00067.x     Document Type: Article

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