To females of a noctuid moth, male courtship songs are nothing more than bat echolocation calls

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 582-584

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d University of Southern Denmark ^*  (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bat predation; Courtship ultrasound; Receiver bias; Tymbal

Indexed keywords

BAT; COURTSHIP; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; EMISSION; INSECTIVORE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MOTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; ULTRASONICS;

LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; SPODOPTERA LITURA;

EID: 77958450870     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0058     Document Type: Article

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