Ultrasonic frogs show hyperacute phonotaxis to female courtship calls

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7197, 2008, Pages 914-916

  Shen, Jun Xian ^a   Feng, Albert S ^b   Xu, Zhi Min ^a   Yu, Zu Lin ^a   Arch, Victoria S ^c   Yu, Xin Jian ^d   Narins, Peter M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; FROG; REPRODUCTION; ULTRASONICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FROG; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; VOCALIZATION;

ANURA; ELEPHANTIDAE; ODORRANA; TYTONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45149125060     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06719     Document Type: Article

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