Cricket Behavior and Neurobiology / Thomas E. Moore, Werner Loher, Franz Huber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huber, Franz, editor.

Loher, Werner, editor.

Moore, Thomas E. (Thomas Edwin), 1930- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crickets--Behavior.

Crickets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (583 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The 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 1960s, 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Preface

1. Natural History / Walker, Thomas J. / Masaki, Sinzo

2. Reproductive Behavior / Loher, Werner / Dambach, Martin

3. Temporal Organization of Reproductive Behavior / Loher, Werner

4. Structure and Function of the Endocrine System / Loher, Werner / Zaretsky, Malcolm D.

5. Vision and Visually Guided Behavior / Honegger, Hans-Willi / Campan, Raymond

6. Vibrational Responses / Dambach, Martin

7. Mechanoreceptors in Behavior / Gnatzy, Werner / Hustert, Reinhold

8. Songs and the Physics of Sound Production / Bennet-Clark, Henry C.

9. Neural Basis of Song Production / Kutsch, Wolfram / Huber, Franz

10. Phonotactic Behavior of Walking Crickets / Weber, Thea / Thorson, John

11. Evasive Acoustic Behavior and Its Neurobiological Basis / Pollack, Gerald S. / Hoy, Ronald R.

12. Biophysical Aspects of Sound Reception / Larsen, Ole Ncesbye / Kleindienst, Hans-Ulrich / Michelsen, Axel

13. Auditory Organ Structure, Development, and Function / Ball, Eldon E. / Oldfield, Brian P. / Rudolph, Karin Michel

14. Central Auditory Pathway: Neuronal Correlates of Phonotactic Behavior / Schildberger, Klaus / Huber, Franz / Wohlers, David W.

15. Perspectives for Future Research / Huber, Franz

Glossary

Glossary of Song Terms / Moore, Thomas E.

Literature Cited

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4590-5

OCLC:

1114789402