Serial hearing organs in the atympanate grasshopper Bullacris membracioides (orthoptera, pneumoridae)

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 465, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 579-592

  Van Staaden, Moira J ^a   Rieser, Michael ^b   Ott, Swidbert R ^c   Pabst, Maria A ^b   Römer, Heiner ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic insects; Auditory evolution; Caelifera; Chordotonal organ; Ears

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BULLACRIS MEMBRACIOIDES; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EAR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GRASSHOPPER; HEARING; INSECT; MATE CHOICE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTIVE PLEURAL CHORDOTONAL ORGAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRETCH RECEPTOR; VIBRATION; VIBRATION RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CILIA; EAR; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; HEARING; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0141593422     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10871     Document Type: Article

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