Pub Date : 2016-01-25DOI: 10.1007/s00359-016-1068-1
M. A. Murphy, Nathan L. Thompson, J. Schul
{"title":"Keeping up with the neighbor: a novel mechanism of call synchrony in Neoconocephalus ensiger katydids","authors":"M. A. Murphy, Nathan L. Thompson, J. Schul","doi":"10.1007/s00359-016-1068-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-016-1068-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73516571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-01-19DOI: 10.1007/s00359-016-1067-2
S. Macias, Julio C. Hechavarría, M. Kössl
{"title":"Temporal encoding precision of bat auditory neurons tuned to target distance deteriorates on the way to the cortex","authors":"S. Macias, Julio C. Hechavarría, M. Kössl","doi":"10.1007/s00359-016-1067-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-016-1067-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77104564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-01-09DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1062-z
M. Juusola, R. Hardie, Kentaro Arikawa
{"title":"Professor Matti Weckström (1959–2015)","authors":"M. Juusola, R. Hardie, Kentaro Arikawa","doi":"10.1007/s00359-015-1062-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-015-1062-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76268837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-01-09DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1065-9
Marko Ilić, P. Pirih, G. Belušič
{"title":"Four photoreceptor classes in the open rhabdom eye of the red palm weevil, Rynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier","authors":"Marko Ilić, P. Pirih, G. Belušič","doi":"10.1007/s00359-015-1065-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-015-1065-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75653694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-01-01Epub Date: 2015-11-14DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1049-9
Ian C Hall, Sarah M N Woolley, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Darcy B Kelley
Mating depends on the accurate detection of signals that convey species identity and reproductive state. In African clawed frogs, Xenopus, this information is conveyed by vocal signals that differ in temporal patterns and spectral features between sexes and across species. We characterized spectral sensitivity using auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs), commonly known as the auditory brainstem response, in males and females of four Xenopus species. In female X. amieti, X. petersii, and X. laevis, peripheral auditory sensitivity to their species own dyad-two, species-specific dominant frequencies in the male advertisement call-is enhanced relative to males. Males were most sensitive to lower frequencies including those in the male-directed release calls. Frequency sensitivity was influenced by endocrine state; ovariectomized females had male-like auditory tuning while dihydrotestosterone-treated, ovariectomized females maintained female-like tuning. Thus, adult, female Xenopus demonstrate an endocrine-dependent sensitivity to the spectral features of conspecific male advertisement calls that could facilitate mating. Xenopus AEPs resemble those of other species in stimulus and level dependence, and in sensitivity to anesthetic (MS222). AEPs were correlated with body size and sex within some species. A frequency following response, probably encoded by the amphibian papilla, might facilitate dyad source localization via interaural time differences.
{"title":"Sex differences and endocrine regulation of auditory-evoked, neural responses in African clawed frogs (Xenopus).","authors":"Ian C Hall, Sarah M N Woolley, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Darcy B Kelley","doi":"10.1007/s00359-015-1049-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00359-015-1049-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mating depends on the accurate detection of signals that convey species identity and reproductive state. In African clawed frogs, Xenopus, this information is conveyed by vocal signals that differ in temporal patterns and spectral features between sexes and across species. We characterized spectral sensitivity using auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs), commonly known as the auditory brainstem response, in males and females of four Xenopus species. In female X. amieti, X. petersii, and X. laevis, peripheral auditory sensitivity to their species own dyad-two, species-specific dominant frequencies in the male advertisement call-is enhanced relative to males. Males were most sensitive to lower frequencies including those in the male-directed release calls. Frequency sensitivity was influenced by endocrine state; ovariectomized females had male-like auditory tuning while dihydrotestosterone-treated, ovariectomized females maintained female-like tuning. Thus, adult, female Xenopus demonstrate an endocrine-dependent sensitivity to the spectral features of conspecific male advertisement calls that could facilitate mating. Xenopus AEPs resemble those of other species in stimulus and level dependence, and in sensitivity to anesthetic (MS222). AEPs were correlated with body size and sex within some species. A frequency following response, probably encoded by the amphibian papilla, might facilitate dyad source localization via interaural time differences. </p>","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699871/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74966469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-29DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1061-0
M. Peso, N. Even, Eirik Søvik, Nicholas L. Naeger, G. Robinson, A. Barron
{"title":"Physiology of reproductive worker honey bees (Apis mellifera): insights for the development of the worker caste","authors":"M. Peso, N. Even, Eirik Søvik, Nicholas L. Naeger, G. Robinson, A. Barron","doi":"10.1007/s00359-015-1061-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-015-1061-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74130698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-12DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1059-7
P. Solari, V. Corda, G. Sollai, S. Kreissl, C. Galizia, R. Crnjar
{"title":"Morphological characterization of the antennal lobes in the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata","authors":"P. Solari, V. Corda, G. Sollai, S. Kreissl, C. Galizia, R. Crnjar","doi":"10.1007/s00359-015-1059-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-015-1059-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85968844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-12DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1057-9
A. Berens, E. Tibbetts, A. Toth
{"title":"Candidate genes for individual recognition in Polistes fuscatus paper wasps","authors":"A. Berens, E. Tibbetts, A. Toth","doi":"10.1007/s00359-015-1057-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-015-1057-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74309506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-10DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1056-x
P. E. Nachtigall, A. Supin, J. Estaban, Aude F. Pacini
{"title":"Learning and extinction of conditioned hearing sensation change in the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)","authors":"P. E. Nachtigall, A. Supin, J. Estaban, Aude F. Pacini","doi":"10.1007/s00359-015-1056-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-015-1056-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Physiology A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73829506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}