Significance of temporal and spectral acoustic cues for sexual recognition in Xenopus laevis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1609, 2007, Pages 479-488

  Vignal, Clémentine ^a,b   Kelley, Darcy ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Frog; Inter sexual acoustic communication; Playback experiments; Temporal and spectral cues; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROG; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; MATE ATTRACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RHYTHM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34249933788     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3744     Document Type: Article

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