... of acoustically calling orthopterans. Laser vibrometry Bioacoustics Stridulation Sound generation Homology Wing venation Within the orthopteran suborder Ensifera, males of most bush crickets (Tettigoniidae), field crickets (Gryllinae) and a few closely related species, generate acoustic signals...

.... Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: As adult locusts age, their hearing becomes less sensitive especially for lower frequencies. Furthermore, females exhibit this decrease with a larger effect, perhaps due to their gravid status. Age Sound Insect Laser vibrometry...

... the paper. T.R. and F.M.-Z. contributed equally to this work. COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 9 12 2012 7 2 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 animal communication calling song laser vibrometry resonance wing stridulation...

... of Biologists Ltd 2013 auditory tympanum katydid tettigoniid Orthoptera laser vibrometry trachea pseudophylline Onomarchus uninotatus Tettigoniid (bushcricket) acoustic communication is under several different evolutionary selection pressures. To improve mate attraction by broadcasting...

... function laser vibrometry As one of the most common forms of communication in animals (Hill, 2008), substrate-borne vibrational signaling is attracting attention from researchers interested in the ecology and evolution of behavior. Animals use a variety of substrates to transmit vibrational...

... mellifera waggle dance profitability thoracic vibrations communication laser vibrometry The waggle dance of the honey bee Apis mellifera is, without doubt, one of the best studied communication systems in the animal kingdom. The stereotyped figure-of-eight-shaped movements, performed...

... © 2011. 2011 neuroactive substances microinjection stridulation resonance acoustic radiation laser vibrometry Male field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) conventionally generate mating calls by rubbing together specialized regions of the forewings or tegmina (e.g. Ewing, 1989...

... the thickened region might confer a mechanical gain onto the activation of the crista acustica sensory neurons during the sound-induced oscillations. * Author for correspondence ([email protected]) 22 11 2010 © 2011. 2011 weta laser vibrometry ensiferan ear tympanum vibration...

... biomechanics and evolution, and the cicada's acoustic behaviour. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) 12 5 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 hearing tympanum biomechanics laser vibrometry high-frequency reception predation selective forces cicada...

... the thoracic oscillations in stingless bees during stationary flight and during two types of non-flight behaviour, annoyance buzzing and forager communication, using laser vibrometry. As expected, the flight vibrations met all tested assumptions for resonant oscillations: slow build-up and decay of amplitude...

... to self-generated sound have been identified in the bat (Suga and Schlegel, 1972 ; Suga and Shimozawa, 1974 ; Schuller, 1979 ; Metzner, 1993), monkey (Müller-Preuss and Ploog, 1981) and human (Paus et al., 1996). Gryllus bimaculatus cricket stridulation hearing laser interferometry laser...

...Jens Meyer; Norbert Elsner ABSTRACT Grasshoppers of 20 acridid species were examined using spectral analysis, laser vibrometry and electrophysiology to determine whether the song spectra, the best frequencies of tympanal-membrane vibrations and the threshold curves of the tympanal nerves...

... receptors were measured simultaneously. With the membrane in the resting position, laser vibrometry and Fast Fourier Transformation analysis of sound-induced membrane vibrations demonstrated characteristic power spectra at the attachment sites of the high-frequency and low-frequency receptors. The spectra...