Simple ears – flexible behavior: Information processing in the moth auditory pathway

Current Zoology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 292-302

  Pfuhl, Gerit ^a,b   Kalinova, Blanka ^c   Valterova, Irena ^c   Berg, Bente G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Lepidoptera; Multimodal communication; Ultrasound perception

Indexed keywords

GALLERIINAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 84925453016     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/61.2.292     Document Type: Article

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