Ultrasonic communication in frogs

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7082, 2006, Pages 333-336

  Feng, Albert S ^a   Narins, Peter M ^b   Xu, Chun He ^c   Lin, Wen Yu ^a   Yu, Zu Lin ^d   Qiu, Qiang ^d   Xu, Zhi Min ^d   Shen, Jun Xian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; AUDITION; BIODIVERSITY; FREQUENCIES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

CETACEANS; HEARING SENSITIVITY; MICROCHIROPTERANS;

ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

COMMUNICATION; FROG; ULTRASONICS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FROG; HEARING ACUITY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASOUND;

AMOLOPS TORMOTUS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; CETACEA; MICROCHIROPTERA; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645028599     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04416     Document Type: Article

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