Insect bioacoustics: mosquitoes make an effort to listen to each other.
As they encounter each other in flight, male and female mosquitoes alter their wing beat to bring their flight tones closer together. Two recent studies provide new insights into the complex auditory processing required for this behaviour.
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School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK. d.robert@bristol.ac.uk
D000162:Acoustics; D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception; D009033:Culicidae / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005426:Flight, Animal; D008297:Male; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D014921:Wings, Animal / Q000502:physiology