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Daniel Otte (born 14 March 1939) is a noted behavior ecologist, a world expert on crickets and grasshoppers and a prominent scientific illustrator. He has made significant contributions to evolutionary biology. He is at the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Natural History Museum in Philadelphia as the Curator and Chairman, Department of Entomology.〔()〕 Otte was born and educated in South Africa and began his career at the University of Delaware. ==Areas of research== Otte has contributed to the following areas of research: * Communication and signaling systems * Origins of organic diversity (speciation, colonization, etc.) * Behavioral ecology * Sexual selection * Discovery of new cricket and grasshopper species from the Pacific region, the Caribbean islands, western United States and Africa * Comprehensive systematic treatments of regional faunas (North America, Australia, Hawaii, Caribbean, southern Africa) * Developing world catalogs of grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, stick insects, mantids and cockroaches * Publicizing organic diversity via the internet (Orthoptera Species File) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan Otte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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