Courtship sounds advertise species identity and male quality in sympatric Pomatoschistus spp. gobies.

Acoustic signals can encode crucial information about species identity and individual quality. We recorded and compared male courtship drum sounds of the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus and the painted goby P. pictus and examined if they can function in species recognition within sympatric populati...

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Main Authors: Silvia S Pedroso, Iain Barber, Ola Svensson, Paulo J Fonseca, Maria Clara P Amorim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23755129/?tool=EBI