Female Drosophila buzzatii cluster fruit flies may be drawn to the specific courtship songs of males of their own species, according to a study published May 3, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Patricia Iglesias ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2017
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Grasshoppers are having to change their song – one of the iconic sounds of summer – to make themselves heard above the din of road traffic, ecologists have discovered. The study, published in the British Ecological Society's ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2012
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Outside of humans, the ability to adjust the intensity of acoustic signals with distance has only been identified in songbirds. Research published Feb. 3, 2016 in Neuron now demonstrates that the male fruit fly also displays ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2016
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A new study traces the neural circuit that makes a female fly receptive to a mating advance.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 26, 2020
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Researchers have developed a new algorithm capable of identifying features of male zebra finch songs that may underlie the distinction between a short phrase sung during courtship, and the same phrase sung in a non-courtship ...
Ecology
Apr 8, 2021
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