Firefly synchrony: A behavioral strategy to minimize visual clutter

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5988, 2010, Pages 181-

  Moiseff, Andrew ^a   Copeland, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONSPECIFIC; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYNCHRONY; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FIREFLY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIREFLIES; LIGHT; MALE; PERIODICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77954578142     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1190421     Document Type: Article

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13. Support for portions of this study were provided by the Georgia Southern University Department of Biology and the University of Connecticut Research Foundation. We thank L. Faust for assistance in the field, E. Lechowicz for technical support, and W. Chapple for commenting on the manuscript. K. Langdon and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park provided logistical support.