What determines the tuning of hearing organs and the frequency of calls? A comparative study in the katydid genus Neoconocephalus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 141-152

  Schul, Johannes ^a   Patterson, Adam C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Bushcricket; Call spectrum; Frequency tuning; Hearing threshold; Neoconocephalus; Sound transmission

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; ORTHOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; ORTHOPTERA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; NEOCONOCEPHALUS; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 0037235483     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00070     Document Type: Article

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