Diversity of acoustic tracheal system and its role for directional hearing in crickets

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schmidt, Arne K D ^a   Römer, Heiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acoustic tracheal system; Cricket; Directional hearing; Interaural intensity difference (IID); Pressure difference receiver; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ENSIFERA (INSECTS); GRYLLACRIDIDAE; GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLOTALPIDAE; HEXAPODA; RHAPHIDOPHORIDAE;

EID: 84885561795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-61     Document Type: Article

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