The Cricket as a Model Organism Development, Regeneration, and Behavior /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Horch, Hadley Wilson (Editor), Mito, Taro (Editor), Popadić, Aleksandar (Editor), Ohuchi, Hideyo (Editor), Noji, Sumihare (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Food > Biotechnology.; Behavioral sciences.; Developmental biology.; Animal models in research.; Life Sciences.; Animal Models.; Behavioral Sciences.; Developmental Biology.; Food Science.

This book covers a broad range of topics about the cricket from its development, regeneration, physiology, nervous system, and behavior with remarkable recent updates by adapting the new, sophisticated molecular techniques including RNAi and other genome editing methods. It also provides detailed pr...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I Development and Regeneration
• 1 History of cricket biology
• 2 Early development and diversity of Gryllus appendages
• 3 Leg formation and regeneration
• 4 Eye development and photoreception of a hemimetabolous insect, Gryllus bimaculatus
• 5 An early embryonic diapause stage and developmental plasticity in the band-legged ground cricket Dianemobius nigrofasciatus
• Part II Physiology, Nervous System, and Behavior
• 6 Molecular approach to the circadian clock mechanism in the cricket
• 7 Hormonal circadian rhythm in the wing-polymorphic cricket Gryllus firmus: Integrating chronobiology, endocrinology and evolution
• 8 Plasticity in the cricket central nervous system
• 9 Learning and memory
• 10 Neurons and networks underlying singing behaviour
• 11 The cricket auditory pathway: neural processing of acoustic signals
• 12 Neuromodulators and the control of aggression in crickets
• 13 Fighting behavior—Understanding the mechanisms of group size-dependent aggression.
• 14 Cercal system-mediated anti-predator behaviors
• 15 The biochemical basis of life history adaptation: Gryllus studies lead the way
• 16 Reproductive behavior and physiology in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
• Part III Experimental Approaches
• 17 Protocols for olfactory conditioning experiments
• 18 Optical recording methods--How to measure of neural activities with Calcium imaging
• 19 Trackball systems for analyzing cricket phonotaxis
• 20 Synthetic approaches for observing and measuring cricket behaviors
• 21 Protocols in the cricket
• BM Index.