Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
1 Introduction
Berthold. Hedwig
2 Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Origins of Tympanal Hearing Organs in Insects
Johannes Strau and Reinhard Lakes-Harlan
3 Hearing and Sensory Ecology of Acoustic Communication in Bladder Grasshoppers
Heiner R mer, Adam R. Smith, and Moira van Staaden
4 Auditory Parasitoid Flies Exploiting Acoustic Communication of Insects
Berthold Hedwig and Daniel Robert
5 Adaptive Sounds and Silences: Acoustic Anti-Predator Strategies in Insects
William E. Conner
6 Acoustic Communication in the Nocturnal Lepidoptera
Michael D. Greenfield
7 Cicada Acoustic Communication
Paulo J. Fonseca
8 Towards an Understanding of the Neural Basis of Acoustic Communication in Crickets
Berthold Hedwig
9 Neural Processing in the Bush-Cricket Auditory Pathway
Andreas Stumpner and Manuela Nowotny
10 Evolution of Call Patterns and Pattern Recognition Mechanisms in Neoconocephalus Katydids
Johannes Schul, Sarah L. Bush, and Katy H. Frederick
11 Processing of Species-Specific Signals in the Auditory Pathway of Grasshoppers
Bernhard Ronacher
12 Sound Communication in Drosophila
Damiano Zanini, Barth Geurten, Christian Spalthoff, and Martin C. G pfert