The role of nocturnal vision in mate choice: Females prefer conspicuous males in the European tree frog (Hyla arborea)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1666, 2009, Pages 2351-2358

  Gomez, Doris ^a   Richardson, Christina ^b   Lengagne, Thierry ^b   Plenet, Sandrine ^b   Joly, Pierre ^b   Léna, Jean Paul ^b   Théry, Marc ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Coloration; Lateral stripe; Mate choice; Multimodal signalling; Nocturnal vision; Vocal sac

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

CAROTENOID; COLOR MORPH; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FROG; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING; VISION; VISUAL CUE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FEMALE; FROG; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NIGHT; NIGHT VISION; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN COLOR;

ANURA; HYLA ARBOREA;

EID: 66749152117     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0168     Document Type: Article

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