Moth wing scales slightly increase the absorbance of bat echolocation calls

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Zeng, Jinyao ^a   Xiang, Ning ^b   Jiang, Lei ^c   Jones, Gareth ^d   Zheng, Yongmei ^c   Liu, Bingwan ^e   Zhang, Shuyi ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; BUTTERFLY; BUTTERFLY WING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FORELIMB; MOTH; MOTH WING SCALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SOUND; SOUND ABSORBANCE; ULTRASOUND; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BUTTERFLIES; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; MOTHS; WING;

EID: 80655141584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027190     Document Type: Article

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