Characterization of female preference functions for Drosophila montana courtship song and a test of the temperature coupling hypothesis

Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 721-727

  Ritchie, Michael G ^a   Saarikettu, Mari ^b   Livingstone, Susan ^a   Hoikkala, Anneli ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Courtship songs; Drosophila montana; Female preferences; Mate recognition systems; Temperature

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; SONG;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MONTANA; DROSOPHILIDAE;

EID: 0034998285     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00808.x     Document Type: Article

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