The sounds of silence: Cessation of singing and song pausing are ultrasound-induced acoustic startle behaviors in the katydid Neoconocephalus ensiger (Orthoptera; Tettigoniidae)

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-142

  Faure, P A ^a,b   Hoy, R R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bushcricket hearing; Central pattern generator; Escape response; Neural oscillator; Predation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NEOCONOCEPHALUS; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 0034122999     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050013     Document Type: Article

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