Moths produce extremely quiet ultrasonic courtship songs by rubbing specialized scales

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 11812-11817

  Nakano, Ryo ^a   Skals, Niels ^b   Takanashi, Takuma ^c   Surlykke, Annemarie ^b   Koike, Takuji ^d   Yoshida, Keisuke ^d   Maruyama, Hirotaka ^e   Tatsuki, Sadahiro ^a   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^e NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Hearing; Playback experiment; Receiver bias; Sound producing organ

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; MOTH; NONHUMAN; OSTRINIA FURNACALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOTHS; MOVEMENT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRASONICS; WING;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA FURNACALIS;

EID: 50149122368     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804056105     Document Type: Article

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