Changing resonator geometry to boost sound power decouples size and song frequency in a small insect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Mhatre, Natasha ^a   Montealegre Z, Fernando ^a   Balakrishnan, Rohini ^b   Robert, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Bioacoustics; Biological modelling; Biomechanics; Finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORELIMB; GEOMETRY; INSECT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GRYLLIDAE; KINETICS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; VIBRATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WING;

GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84861839201     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200192109     Document Type: Article

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