de Bivort B. Courtship Behavior: Hearing New Notes in Classic Songs.
Curr Biol 2018;
28:R826-R828. [PMID:
30086313 DOI:
10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.066]
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Abstract
Courtship depends on communication between partners; for example, male flies sing to entice females. New research, deploying modern statistical techniques, has identified a previously unrecognized note in the song repertoire, expanding the richness of this model system of communication and sexual reproduction.
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