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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298313003321

Titolo

Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication / / edited by Berthold Hedwig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-40462-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Animal Signals and Communication, , 2197-7305 ; ; 1

Disciplina

595.7072

Soggetti

Invertebrates

Animal genetics

Neurobiology

Biophysics

Biological physics

Acoustics

Animal Genetics and Genomics

Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Origins of Tympanal Hearing Organs in Insects -- Hearing and Sensory Ecology of Acoustic Communication in Bladder Grasshoppers -- Auditory Parasitoid Flies Exploiting Acoustic Communication of Insects -- Adaptive Sounds and Silences: Acoustic Anti-Predator Strategies in Insects -- Acoustic Communication in the Nocturnal Lepidoptera -- Cicada Acoustic Communication -- Towards an Understanding of the Neural Basis of Acoustic Communication in Crickets -- Neural Processing in the Bush-Cricket Auditory Pathway -- Evolution of Call Patterns and Pattern Recognition Mechanisms in Neoconocephalus Katydids -- Processing of Species-Specific Signals in the Auditory Pathway of Grasshoppers -- Sound Communication in Drosophila.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides a comprehensive selection of recent studies addressing insect hearing and acoustic communication. The variety of signalling behaviours and hearing organs makes insects highly suitable



animals for exploring and analysing signal generation and hearing in the context of neural processing, ecology, evolution and genetics. Across a variety of hearing species like moths, crickets, bush-crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and flies, the leading researchers in the field cover recent scientific progress and address key points in current research, such as: - How can we approach the evolution of hearing in insects and what is the developmental and neural origin of the auditory organs? - How are hearing and sound production embedded in the natural lifestyle of the animals, allowing intraspecific communication but also predator avoidance and even predation? - What are the functional properties of hearing organs and how are they achieved at the molecular, biophysical and neural levels? - What are the neural mechanisms of central auditory processing and signal generation? The book is intended for students and researchers both inside and outside of the fascinating field of bioacoustics and aims to foster understanding of hearing and acoustic communication in insects.