Hearing is not necessarily believing in nocturnal anurans

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 633-635

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

^a UMR5023 Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Anurans; Mate choice; Multimodal communication; Night vision; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; FROG; HEARING; MATE CHOICE; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; VISUAL CUE; VOCALIZATION;

ANURA; HYLA ARBOREA; HYLIDAE;

EID: 77958477623     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0038     Document Type: Article

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