The brain as a source of selection on the social niche: Examples from the psychophysics of mate choice in Túngara frogs

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 756-770

  Ryan, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Smithsonian Topical Research Institute   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANURA; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PHYSALAEMUS PUSTULOSUS;

EID: 80054924032     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr065     Document Type: Review

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