ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021
Mosquito sound communication: are male swarms loud enough to attract females?
Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Acoustic behaviour and flight tone frequency changes in adult Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Spatial and temporal characteristics of laboratory-inducediScience · 2024Article
- Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- No evidence for long-range male sex pheromones in two malaria mosquitoes.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Auditory sensory range of male mosquitoes for the detection of female flight sound.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Swarming Behavior in Anopheles gambiae (sensu lato): Current Knowledge and Future Outlook.Journal of medical entomology · 2022Review
- Harmonic convergence coordinates swarm mating by enhancing mate detection in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Given the unsurpassed sound sensitivity of mosquitoes among arthropods and the sound source power required for long-range hearing, we investigated the distance over which female mosquitoes detect species-specific cues in the sound of station-keeping mating swarms. A common misunderstanding, that mosquitoes cannot hear at long range because their hearing organs are 'particle-velocity' receptors, has clouded the fact that particle velocity is an intrinsic component of sound whatever the distance to the sound source. We exposed free-flying
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