... melanogaster strongly preferred courting low-contrast, gray targets. Mate recognition P1 neurons Object recognition Many animals use vision to recognize and approach conspecific mates, including horseshoe crabs ( Barlow et al., 1982 ; Herzog et al., 1996 ), crustaceans ( Díaz and Thiel, 2004...

...Maarten de Groot; Andrej Čokl; Meta Virant-Doberlet SUMMARY Animals often communicate in environments with high levels of biotic noise that arises from the signals of other individuals. Although effects of background biotic noise on mate recognition and discrimination have been widely studied...

... behaviours, visual mate choice in particular, are studied. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 mate recognition UV vision photoreceptor compound eye colour vision wing reflection spectra Humans cannot see...

...Fabrice Savarit; Jean-François Ferveur SUMMARY Hydrocarbons on the cuticle of mature Drosophila melanogaster flies play a crucial role in mate recognition, and protect against dehydration. We measured the effect of temperature on mature cuticular hydrocarbons (CHs) by (i) rearing two control...

... of the gymnotids and mormyrids that make up the subject matter of the rest of this volume. elasmobranch electroreception prey detection mate recognition navigation noise suppression © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 22 01 1999 21 04 1999 * Author for correspondence (e...