Private ultrasonic whispering in moths

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-126

  Nakano, Ryo ^a   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a   Tatsuki, Sadahiro ^a   Skals, Niels ^b   Surlykke, Annemarie ^c   Takanashi, Takuma ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b University of Southern Denmark ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Eavesdropping; Sound level

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA FURNACALIS;

EID: 67650607097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.7738     Document Type: Article

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