The behavioral ecology of insect vibrational communication

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 323-334

  Cocroft, Reginald B ^a   Rodríguez, Rafael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Eavesdropping; Insect plant interactions; Sensory drive; Sexual selection; Social selection

Indexed keywords

INSECTA;

EID: 17444425347     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0323:TBEOIV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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