Male moth songs tempt females to accept mating: The role of acoustic and pheromonal communication in the reproductive behaviour of aphomia sociella

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Kindl, Jiří ^a   Kalinová, Blanka ^a   Červenka, Milan ^b   Jílek, Milan ^c   Valterová, Irena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APHOMIA SOCIELLA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MOTH; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RECORDING; REPRODUCTION; TIME; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VOCALIZATION;

GALLERIINAE; LEPIDOPTERA;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MOTHS; REPRODUCTION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TAPE RECORDING; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80055117664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026476     Document Type: Article

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