Low-pass filters and differential tympanal tuning in a paleotropical bushcricket with an unusually low frequency call

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 777-787

  Rajaraman, Kaveri ^a   Mhatre, Natasha ^b   Jain, Manjari ^a   Postles, Mathew ^b   Balakrishnan, Rohini ^a   Robert, Daniel ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory; Katydid; Laser vibrometry; Onomarchus uninotatus; Orthoptera; Pseudophylline; Tettigoniid; Trachea; Tympanum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INDIA; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ORTHOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; INDIA; MALE; ORTHOPTERA; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VIBRATION; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84874173476     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.078352     Document Type: Article

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