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Science 3 March 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4332, pp. 992 - 994
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4332.992
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Temperature Coupling in the Vocal Communication System of the Gray Tree Frog, Hyla versicolor

H. CARL GERHARDT 1

1 Division of Biological Science, University of Missouri, Columbia 65201

The gray tree frog mates over a temperature range of at least 9°C. Gravid females, tested at two different temperatures, preferred synthetic mating calls with temperature-dependent temporal properties similar to those produced by a male at about the same temperature as their own. Thus, the vocalization system and the temporal pattern recognition system are affected by temperature in a qualitatively similar fashion.

Submitted on July 25, 1977
Revised on November 25, 1977


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