Characterization and Generation of Male Courtship Song in Cotesia congregata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Bredlau, Justin P ^a   Mohajer, Yasha J ^a   Cameron, Timothy M ^b   Kester, Karen M ^a   Fine, Michael L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTESIA CONGREGATA; COURTSHIP; FORELIMB; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OSCILLOMETRY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING; WASP;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SINGING; VIDEO RECORDING; WASPS; WING;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA CONGREGATA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 84876455392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062051     Document Type: Article

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