Inter-plant vibrational communication in a leafhopper insect

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Eriksson, Anna ^a,b   Anfora, Gianfranco ^a   Lucchi, Andrea ^b   Virant Doberlet, Meta ^c   Mazzoni, Valerio ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSECT; MATING; MECHANORECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; REARING; SCAPHOIDEUS TITANUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOBIOLOGY; VIBRATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GRAPE; HEMIPTERA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; SCAPHOIDEUS TITANUS; VITIS;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; MALE; PERCEPTION; PLANT LEAVES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIBRATION; VITIS;

EID: 79955800256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019692     Document Type: Article

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