Evolution of deceptive and true courtship songs in moths

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nakano, Ryo ^a,b   Takanashi, Takuma ^c   Surlykke, Annemarie ^d   Skals, Niels ^d   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COURTSHIP; DECEPTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COURTSHIP; DECEPTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOUND; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84879645159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02003     Document Type: Article

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