Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication

✍ Scribed by Berthold Hedwig (auth.), Berthold Hedwig (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Series: Animal Signals and Communication 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Origins of Tympanal Hearing Organs in Insects....Pages 5-26
Hearing and Sensory Ecology of Acoustic Communication in Bladder Grasshoppers....Pages 27-43
Auditory Parasitoid Flies Exploiting Acoustic Communication of Insects....Pages 45-63
Adaptive Sounds and Silences: Acoustic Anti-Predator Strategies in Insects....Pages 65-79
Acoustic Communication in the Nocturnal Lepidoptera....Pages 81-100
Cicada Acoustic Communication....Pages 101-121
Towards an Understanding of the Neural Basis of Acoustic Communication in Crickets....Pages 123-141
Neural Processing in the Bush-Cricket Auditory Pathway....Pages 143-166
Evolution of Call Patterns and Pattern Recognition Mechanisms in Neoconocephalus Katydids....Pages 167-183
Processing of Species-Specific Signals in the Auditory Pathway of Grasshoppers....Pages 185-204
Sound Communication in Drosophila ....Pages 205-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-222

✦ Subjects

Invertebrates;Animal Genetics and Genomics;Neurobiology;Biophysics and Biological Physics;Acoustics