Keeping up with Bats: Dynamic Auditory Tuning in a Moth

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2418-2423

  Windmill, James Frederick Charles ^a   Jackson, Joseph Curt ^a   Tuck, Elizabeth Jane ^a   Robert, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; EAR; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; EAR; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTHS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUND;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 33845437655     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.09.066     Document Type: Article

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