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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Anim Behav. 2011 Oct 1;82(4):627–633. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.013

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Harmonic convergence and mating behaviours of Ae. aegypti. A. Examples of observed mating behaviours in this study. Panel 1, female tilts abdomen away from male to prevent genital contact and semen transfer. Panel 2, female is holding male away from her body with her legs. Panel 3, the female and male are in successful copula. Females were tethered to strand of human hair (shown in 1). Video footage of these behaviours can be found in the supplemental materials. B. Spectrogram trace of a successful convergence of a male’s fundamental (blue trace) and female’s 2nd harmonic (red trace). C. Example of male (blue trace) and female (red trace) that did not converge during a mating attempt.