Prolonged Response to Calling Songs by the L3 Auditory Interneuron in Female Crickets (Acheta domesticus): Possible Roles in Regulating Phonotactic Threshold and Selectiveness for Call Carrier Frequency

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 72-85

  Bronsert, Michael ^a   Bingol, Hilary ^a   Atkins, Gordon ^a   Stout, John ^a  

^a ANDREWS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; GRYLLIDAE;

JUVENILE HORMONE III; SESQUITERPENE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GANGLION; GRYLLIDAE; HEARING; INTERNEURON; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GRYLLIDAE; INTERNEURONS; SESQUITERPENES; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0037363358     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.10243     Document Type: Article

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