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Drosophila courtship song recording via wing vibration (Drosophilidae)

Subcategory: acoustic recording
Papers: 3 | Mentions: 3

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Description

Recording male Drosophila courtship songs by placing flies in Petri dish chambers and capturing wing vibration sounds with directional microphone positioned above the chamber roof.

Typical Equipment

  • Petri dish
  • nylon net
  • AKG C 1000 S microphone
  • Marantz Professional tape recorder
  • Signal 4.0 sound analysis system

Output Measurements

  • pulse number
  • pulse train length
  • sound pulse length
  • interpulse interval
  • cycles in sound pulse
  • carrier frequency

Papers Using This Protocol (3)

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Male courtship song and female preference variation between phylogeographically distinct populations of <i>Drosophila montana</i>

2007Evolutionusing
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Phylogeographic patterns in <i>Drosophila montana</i>

2007Molecular Ecologyusing
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The extent of variation in male song, wing and genital characters among allopatric <i>Drosophila montana</i> populations

2007Journal Compilation of European Society for Evolutionary Biologyusing