Moths are not silent, but whisper ultrasonic courtship songs

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  2009-12-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1242/jeb.032466PMID 19946086
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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