Evolutionarily conserved coding properties of auditory neurons across grasshopper species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1646, 2008, Pages 1965-1974

  Neuhofer, Daniela ^a   Wohlgemuth, Sandra ^a   Stumpner, Andreas ^b   Ronacher, Bernhard ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Evolution of nervous system; Grasshoppers; Neuronal encoding; Spike train metric

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BIOACOUSTICS; DIVERGENCE; GRASSHOPPER; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHORTHIPPUS BIGUTTULUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPER; LOCUST; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACRIDIDAE; CHORTHIPPUS BIGUTTULUS; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA;

EID: 47249088574     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0527     Document Type: Article

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