Developmental plasticity of mating calls enables acoustic communication in diverse environments

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1640, 2008, Pages 1243-1248

  Beckers, Oliver M ^a   Schul, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Neoconocephalus triops; Phenotypic plasticity; Phonotaxis; Temperature dependency

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CALLING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; MATE ATTRACTION; MOVEMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HABITAT; MALE; MATING; NEOCONOCEPHALUS TRIOPS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SUMMER; WINTER;

NEOCONOCEPHALUS; TRIOPS;

EID: 42549117662     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1765     Document Type: Article

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