supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070500,32370439,32220103003,and 31930014);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2021B1515020044);the Department of Science and Technology in Guangdong Province(2019B090905003)。
Dear Editor,The German cockroach,Blattella germanica(Insecta,Blattodea),is one of the most synanthropic cosmopolitan pests affecting public health,which is often described as“little mighty”because of its extreme vit...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32150410366,31972338,and 32372639);China Agriculture Research System(CARS-02-26);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFD1400700).
Sex pheromones are considered to play critical roles in partner communication of most parasitic Hymenoptera.However,the identification of sex pheromone components remains limited to a few families of parasitoid wasps....
The role of bare body parts in sexual signalling in birds has received relatively little attention.I describe how the bare-throated spurfowl males saturate the colours of their throats to attract females.Of the 23 Afr...
supported by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program,China(KQTD20180411143628272);the Special Funds for Science Technology Innovation and Industrial Development of Shenzhen Dapeng New District,China(PT202101-02).
The oriental fruit fly,Bactrocera dorsalis(Hendel),is a devastating pest of citrus fruits.After successful mating,adult females insert their eggs into the ripened fruit,resulting in moldy and rotten fruit and causing ...
supported by Leonida Fusani’s Startup funding of the University of Vienna,Austria,by the Austrian Science Fund(FWF),W1262-B29;by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund(WWTF)CS18-021。
Some multimodal signals-that is,occurring in more than one sensory modality-appear to carry additional information which is not present when component signals are presented separately.To understand the function of mal...
This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant numbers 31772505 and 32070476).
Cicadas usually sing and mate in the higher parts of trees.Studies addressing the effects of different acoustic signals on mate choice in Cicadidae are very limited.We investigated the effects of both acoustical featu...
a grant from the Chinese Natural Science Foundation to Fang ZHANG(NSFC grants 31872230;31640073);Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resources(No.591601)。
Nonlinear phenomena are commonly shown in the vocalization of animals and exerts different adaptive functions.Although some studies have pointed out that nonlinear phenomena can enhance the individual identification o...
This article focuses on the early Republican theater as a popular site of experiments with love;and discusses the significance of pengjue courtship between actresses and male patrons.It argues that while the literati ...
This work represents a portion of a thesis submitted by E.C.K.in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.S.degree from the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati.This research was supported by grant IOS-1026995 from the National Science Foundation(to G.W.U.)。
Females must be able to perceive and assess male signals,especially when they occur simultaneously with those of other males.Previous studies show female Schizocosa ocreata wolf spiders display receptivity to isolated...
the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant XDB11050600);the National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFC1200600);the National Nature Science Foundation of China (31170361).
The pea leafminer (Liriomyza huidobrensis) is a notorious pest of vegetables and ornamental plants worldwide. Despite a large number of studies on its biology and ecology, the courtship behavior and sexual communicati...