Brain control of mating behavior in the male cricket Gryllus bimaculatus DeGeer: Excitatory control of copulatory actions

Zoological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 659-669

  Matsumoto, Yukihisa ^a   Sakai, Masaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; INSECTA;

EID: 0035402986     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.18.659     Document Type: Article

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