Sensory ecology of predator-prey interactions: Responses of the AN2 interneuron in the field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus to the echolocation calls of sympatric bats

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 191, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 605-618

  Fullard, James H ^a   Ratcliffe, John M ^a   Guignion, Cassandra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Auditory ecology; Bat; Cricket; Echolocation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAT; CYTOLOGY; ECHOLOCATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; GRYLLIDAE; HEARING; INTERNEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; GRYLLIDAE; INTERNEURONS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 23744498102     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-005-0610-3     Document Type: Article

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