Cricket behavior and neurobiology

Franz Huber, Thomas Edwin Moore, Werner Loher

Cornell University Press, 1989 - Science - 565 pages

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 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.

Contents

• Reproductive Behavior: 43
• Temporal Organization of Reproductive Behavior: 83
• Structure and Function of the Endocrine System: 114
• Vision and Visually Guided Behavior: 147
• Vihrational 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
• Neuronal Correlates of Phono: 423
• Perspectives for Future Research: 459

Popular passages

Page 496 - DELPHIN F. (1965) The histology and possible functions of neurosecretory cells in the ventral ganglia of Schistocerca gregaria Forskal (Orthoptera: Acrididae).‎

Page 493 - Physiological and morphological properties of the metathoracic common inhibitory neuron of the locust. J. Comp. Physiol.‎

Page 505 - H.-U. Kleindienst, T. Weber, and J. Thorson. 1984. Auditory behavior of the cricket. III. Tracking of male calling song by surgically and developmentally one-eared females and the curious role of the anterior tympanum. J. Comp. Physiol. A 155:725-38.‎

Page 498 - MP (1968) Peripheral neurosecretory cells in the stick insect (Carausius morosus) and the blowfly larva (Phormia terraenovae) . J.‎

Page 491 - MJ (1966). The physiology of excretion in the cotton stainer, Dysdercus fasciatus Signoret. IV. Hormonal control of excretion. J. exp, Biol.‎

Page 493 - Neural mechanisms underlying behaviour in the locust Schistocerca gregaria. III. Topography of limb motoneurons in the metathoracic ganglion. J. Neurobiol. 4: 167-186.‎

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.‎

About the author

Franz Huber studied geography and sociology at the University of Salzburg (Austria) with stays at Oxford Brookes University (UK) and Duke University Graduate School (USA). He was external lecturer at the University of Kassel (Germany), the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Salzburg (Austria). Since 2006 he is a PhD student in economic geography at the University of Cambridge (UK) as a Gates Scholar.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cricket behavior and neurobiology; Comstock Bks
• Editors: Franz Huber, Thomas Edwin Moore, Werner Loher
• Contributor: Franz Huber
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0801422728, 9780801422720
• Length: 565 pages
• Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General