Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hedwig, Berthold (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Animal Signals and Communication, 1
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal genetics.; Invertebrates.; Neurobiology.; Acoustics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Life Sciences.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

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 proc...

Table of Contents:

• 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.