Pure ultrasonic communication in an endemic Bornean frog

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Arch, Victoria S ^a   Grafe, T Ulmar ^b   Gridi Papp, Marcos ^a   Narins, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BORNEO; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FIELD STUDY; FROG; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARDRUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIBRATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HUIA CAVITYMPANUM; MAMMALIA; ODORRANA; VERTEBRATA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BORNEO; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; MALE; RANIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; ULTRASONICS; VIBRATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 65549102080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005413     Document Type: Article

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