{"data":[{"source":"bio.acousti.ca","id":"17211","type":"article","title":"Do the song pulses of Drosophila show cyclic fluctuations?","author":"Bennet-Clark, H. C.","editor":null,"year":"1990","month":null,"journal":"Trends Ecol Evol","booktitle":null,"series":null,"howpublished":null,"volume":"5","number":"3","pages":"93-7","chapter":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"organization":null,"institution":null,"school":null,"address":null,"type_of_work":null,"note":null,"isbn":null,"issn":"0169-5347","doi":"10.1016\/0169-5347(90)90238-9","url":null,"attachments":null,"keywords":null,"abstract":"Following analysis of the song of two Drosophila species, Kyriacou and Hall in 1980 described a rhythmic variation in the intervals between sound pulses. This rhythmicity was species specific and various mutants also showed characteristic song-period rhythmicity. Recent attempts by Ewing and by Crossley to confirm the existence of the rhythms, using essentially similar methods, have failed; Kyriacou and Hall have since ascribed these failures to differences in technique and methods of measurement between them and their critics, and re-affirm that the rhythmicity they described exists. In view of the controversy surrounding the existence of song-period rhythmicity, a body of work on the genetics of this behaviour must be viewed with caution.","type_name":"Journal Article","journal_abbreviation":"Trends Ecol. Evol. (Amst.)","pmid":"21232331","info_url":"https:\/\/bio.acousti.ca\/node\/17211"}]}