Cricket Behavior and NeurobiologyThe world of crickets has long been a world of scientific adventure and human fascination. Because of their remarkable ways of communicating and because their nervous and endocrine systems are easily accessible to researchers, crickets can be studied and analyzed with great effectiveness. Starting in the 1960's, vastly improved behavioral and neurobiological techniques have brought them to the frontier of the new field of neuroethology.Here, in the most comprehensive book on crickets ever compiled, twenty-five leading scientists detail the present state of cricket research both at conceptual and at experimental levels. They tell about the manifold strategies crickets use in matching development with seasons and habitats, finding mates, and avoiding parasites and predators, and they describe the physiological mechanisms, especially the neuronal mechanisms, underlying cricket behavior. Their book is at once about communication, comparative physiology and anatomy, and environmental interaction.More than half of Cricket Behavior and Neurobiology is devoted to acoustic behavior and bioacoustics. It is intended for those interested in entomology, general and comparative physiology, biophysics, endocrinology, and chronobiology. It offers new information for behavioral physiologists and ecologists, bioacousticians, and especially neurobiologists concerned with behavior. |
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Contents
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Structure and Function of the Endocrine System | 114 |
Vision and Visually Guided Behavior | 147 |
Vibrational Responses | 178 |
Mechanoreceptors in Behavior | 198 |
Songs and the Physics of Sound Production | 227 |
Neural Basis of Song Production | 262 |
Phonotactic Behavior of Walking Crickets | 310 |
Evasive Acoustic Behavior and Its Neurobiological Basis | 340 |
Biophysical Aspects of Sound Reception | 364 |
Auditory Organ Structure Development and Function | 391 |
Perspectives for Future Research | 459 |
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Page xvi - ... garden-grasses; Nothing moves in the night but the suzumushi's voice. Heard in these alien fields, the voice of the suzumushi — Sweet in the evening-dusk — sounds like the sound of home. Vainly the suzumushi exhausts its powers of pleasing, Always, the long night through, my tears continue to flow! Hark to those tinkling tones — the chant of the suzumushi! — If a jewel of dew could sing, it would tinkle with such a voice!
Page 504 - Dendritic sprouting and compensatory synaptogenesis in an identified interneuron follow auditory deprivation in a cricket. Proc.
Page 532 - Menzel. 1989. Spectral and polarized light sensitivity of photoreceptors in the compound eye of the cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) . J.
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| Title | Cricket Behavior and Neurobiology A Comstock Bk |
| Editors | Franz Huber, Thomas Edwin Moore, Werner Loher |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0801422728, 9780801422720 |
| Length | 565 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General |
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