Double meaning of courtship song in a moth

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1789, 2014, Pages

  Nakano, Ryo ^a   Ihara, Fumio ^a   Mishiro, Koji ^a   Toyama, Masatoshi ^b   Toda, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Bat; Courtship song; Moth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BAT; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; ECHOLOCATION; MATE ATTRACTION; MATING BEHAVIOR; MIMICRY; MOTH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SONG; SYMPATRY;

EID: 84903976147     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0840     Document Type: Article

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