Comparative Hearing Insects

Author : Ronald R. Hoy,Richard R. Fay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461205852

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Comparative Hearing: Insects by Ronald R. Hoy,Richard R. Fay Pdf

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of compre hensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research. The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research, including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical investigators. The volumes are intended to introduce new in vestigators to important aspects of hearing science and to help established investigators to better understand the fundamental theories and data in fields of hearing that they may not normally follow closely. Each volume is intended to present a particular topic comprehensively, and each chapter serves as a synthetic overview and guide to the literature. As such, the chapters present neither exhaustive data reviews nor original research that has not yet appeared in peer-reviewed journals. The volumes focus on topics that have developed a solid data and conceptual foundation, rather than on those for which a literature is only beginning to develop. New research areas will be covered on a timely basis in the series as they begin to mature.

Author : Richard R. Fay,Arthur N. Popper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hearing
ISBN : UOM:39015032430186

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Comparative Hearing by Richard R. Fay,Arthur N. Popper Pdf

Author : Gerald S. Pollack,Andrew C. Mason,Arthur N Popper,Richard R Fay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319288901

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Insect Hearing by Gerald S. Pollack,Andrew C. Mason,Arthur N Popper,Richard R Fay Pdf

Insect Hearing provides a broadly based view of the functions, mechanisms, and evolution of hearing in insects. With a single exception, the chapters focus on problems of hearing and their solutions, rather than being focused on particular taxa. The exception, hearing in Drosophila, is justified because, due to its ever growing toolbox of genetic and optical techniques, Drosophila is rapidly becoming one of the most important model systems in neurobiology, including the neurobiology of hearing. Auditory systems, whether insectan or vertebrate, must perform a number of basic tasks: capturing mechanical stimuli and transducing these into neural activity, representing the timing and frequency of sound signals, distinguishing between behaviorally relevant signals and other sounds and localizing sound sources. Studying how these are accomplished in insects offers a valuable comparative view that helps to reveal general principles of auditory function.

Author : Berthold Hedwig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642404627

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Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication by Berthold Hedwig Pdf

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.

Author : Sakis Drosopoulos,Michael F. Claridge
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781420039337

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Insect Sounds and Communication by Sakis Drosopoulos,Michael F. Claridge Pdf

While we may have always assumed that insects employ auditory communication, our understanding of it has been impeded by various technical challenges. In comparison to the study of an insect's visual and olfactory expression, research in the area of acoustic communication has lagged behind. Filling this void, Insect Sounds and Communication is the

Author : Christine Köppl,Geoffrey A. Manley,Arthur N. Popper,Richard R. Fay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461490777

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Insights from Comparative Hearing Research by Christine Köppl,Geoffrey A. Manley,Arthur N. Popper,Richard R. Fay Pdf

The hearing organs of non-mammals, which show quite large and systematic differences to each other and to those of mammals, provide an invaluable basis for comparisons of structure and function. By taking advantage of the vast diversity of possible study organisms provided by the "library" that is biological diversity, it is possible to learn how complex functions are realized in the inner ear through the evolution of specific structural, cellular and molecular configurations. Insights from Comparative Hearing Research brings together some of the most exciting comparative research on hearing and shows how this work has profoundly impacted our understanding of hearing in all vertebrates.

Author : Richard R. Fay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461205333

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Comparative Hearing: Fish and Amphibians by Richard R. Fay Pdf

Experimental approaches to auditory research make use of validated animal models to determine what can be generalized from one species to another. This volume brings together our current understanding of the auditory systems of fish and amphibians. To address broader comparative issues, this book treats both fish and amphibians together, to overcome the differing theoretical and experimental paradigms that underlie most work on these groups.

Author : Alex Córdoba-Aguilar,Daniel González-Tokman,Isaac González-Santoyo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192518095

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Insect Behavior by Alex Córdoba-Aguilar,Daniel González-Tokman,Isaac González-Santoyo Pdf

Insects display a staggering diversity of behaviors. Studying these systems provides insights into a wide range of ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral questions including the genetics of behavior, phenotypic plasticity, chemical communication, and the evolution of life-history traits. This accessible text offers a new approach that provides the reader with the necessary theoretical and conceptual foundations, at different hierarchical levels, to understand insect behavior. The book is divided into three main sections: mechanisms, ecological and evolutionary consequences, and applied issues. The final section places the preceding chapters within a framework of current threats to human survival - climate change, disease, and food security - before providing suggestions and insights as to how we can utilize an understanding of insect behavior to control and/or ameliorate them. Each chapter provides a concise, authoritative review of the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological foundations of each topic.

Author : Vincent H. Resh,Ring T. Cardé
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080546056

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Encyclopedia of Insects by Vincent H. Resh,Ring T. Cardé Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Insects is a comprehensive work devoted to all aspects of insects, including their anatomy, physiology, evolution, behavior, reproduction, ecology, and disease, as well as issues of exploitation, conservation, and management. Articles provide definitive facts about all insects from aphids, beetles and butterflies to weevils and yellowjackets. Insects are beautiful and dreadful, ravenous pests and devastating disease vectors, resilient and resistant to eradication, and the source of great benefit and great loss for civilization. Important for ecosystem health, they have influenced the evolution of other life forms on our planet including humans. Anyone interested in insects, from university professors and researchers to high school students preparing a report, will find The Encyclopedia of Insects an indispensable volume for insect information. * An unprecedented collection in 1,276 pages covering every important aspect of insects * Presents 270 original articles, thoroughly peer reviewed and edited for consistency * Features 1,000 figures and tables, including 500 full-color photographs * Includes the latest information contributed by 250 experts in 17 countries * Designed to save research time with a full glossary, 1,700 cross-references, and 3,000 bibliographic entries

Author : Robert J. Dooling,Richard R. Fay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461211822

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Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles by Robert J. Dooling,Richard R. Fay Pdf

Birds and reptiles have long fascinated investigators studying hearing and the auditory system. The highly evolved auditory inner ear of birds and reptiles shares many characteristics with the ear of mammals. Thus, the two groups are essential in understanding the form and function of the vertebrate and mammalian auditory systems. Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles covers the broad range of our knowledge of hearing and acoustic communication in both groups of vertebrates. This volume addresses the many similarities in their auditory systems, as well as the known significant differences about hearing in the two groups.

Author : Douglas B. Webster,Richard R. Fay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461227847

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The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing by Douglas B. Webster,Richard R. Fay Pdf

To develop a science of hearing that is intellectu The five-day conference was held at the Mote ally satisfying we must first integrate the diverse, Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, May - extensive body of comparative research into an 24, 1990. The invited participants came from the evolutionary context. The need for this integra fields of comparative anatomy, physiology, biophys tion, and a conceptual framework in which it could ics, animal behavior, psychophysics, evolutionary be structured, were demonstrated in landmark biology, ontogeny, and paleontology. Before the papers by van Bergeijk in 1967 and Wever in 1974. conference, preliminary manuscripts of the invited However, not since 1965, when the American papers were distributed to all participants. This facilitated - even encouraged - discussions through Society of Zoologists sponsored an evolutionary conference entitled ''The Vertebrate Ear;' has there out the conference which could be called, among other things, "lively. " The preview of papers, along been a group effort to assemble and organize our current knowledge on the evolutionary-as with the free exchange of information and opinion, opposed to comparative-biology of hearing. also helped improve the quality and consistency of In the quarter century since that conference the final manuscripts included in this volume. there have been major changes in evolutionary In addition to the invited papers, several studies concepts (e. g. , punctuated equilibrium), in sys were presented as posters during evening sessions.

Author : Christine Koppl,Geoffrey a Manley,Arthur N Popper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461490782

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Insights from Comparative Hearing Research by Christine Koppl,Geoffrey a Manley,Arthur N Popper Pdf

This book brings together some of the most exciting comparative research on hearing and shows how this work has profoundly impacted our understanding of hearing in all vertebrates. It highlights research achieved through the use of non-standard animal species.

Author : Irving B. Weiner,Randy J. Nelson,Sheri Mizumori
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470890592

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Handbook of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience by Irving B. Weiner,Randy J. Nelson,Sheri Mizumori Pdf

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

Author : Whitlow W.L. Au,Richard R. Fay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461211501

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Hearing by Whales and Dolphins by Whitlow W.L. Au,Richard R. Fay Pdf

Here, experts in different areas of the field provide an overview of the bioacoustics of whales and dolphins as well as a thorough introduction to the subject for investigators of hearing in other animals. Topics covered include the structure and function of cetacean auditory systems, the unique sound production system of odontocetes, acoustic communication, psychoacoustics, echolocation and models of sound propagation.

Author : H. Carl Gerhardt,Franz Huber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0226288323

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Acoustic Communication in Insects and Anurans by H. Carl Gerhardt,Franz Huber Pdf

Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a bewildering (and sometimes deafening) chorus of frog, toad, and insect calls. How are these calls produced? What messages are encoded within the sounds, and how do their intended recipients receive and decode these signals? How does acoustic communication affect and reflect behavioral and evolutionary factors such as sexual selection and predator avoidance? H. Carl Gerhardt and Franz Huber address these questions among many others, drawing on research from bioacoustics, behavior, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology to present the first integrated approach to the study of acoustic communication in insects and anurans. They highlight both the common solutions that these very different groups have evolved to shared challenges, such as small size, ectothermy (cold-bloodedness), and noisy environments, as well as the divergences that reflect the many differences in evolutionary history between the groups. Throughout the book Gerhardt and Huber also provide helpful suggestions for future research.