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stridulation — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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stridulation

Scope: community ecology

Papers: 2 | Mentions: 2

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 42 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on stridulation with 42 nodes and 143 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Beetles, Crested Butte, Bacteria.

Definition

Sound production in beetles when the plectrum (scraper on ventral elytra) is moved across pars stridens (rigid file of teeth on fifth abdominal segment in males, fourth segment in females)

Publications (2)

Abundance and elevational range shifts of three species of burying beetle in Gunnison County, Colorado and importance of stridulation during reproduction in burying beetles

Stridulation in <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i> as a Possible Means of Cooperation during Carcass Sequestration

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carrion beetle life cycle

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Frequently Associated Species

Nicrophorus vespilloides

Silphidae2 papers

Beetles

Nicrophorus orbicollis

Silphidae2 papers

Nicrophorus pustulatus

Silphidae2 papers

Nicrophorus investigator

Silphidae2 papers

Coleoptera

Liaoximordellidae2 papers

Nicrophorus defodiens

Silphidae2 papers

Nicrophorus marginatus

Silphidae2 papers

Nicrophorus guttula

Silphidae2 papers

Peromyscus maniculatus

Cricetidae1 paper