A role for ultrasonic vocalisation in social communication and divergence of natural populations of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Von Merten, Sophie ^a   Hoier, Svenja ^a   Pfeifle, Christine ^a   Tautz, Diethard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION; WILD ANIMAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; ULTRASOUND;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84901218476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097244     Document Type: Article

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