Date of Award
4-5-2019
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Biology
First Advisor
Benjamin Navia
Abstract
The L3 auditory neuron in female cricket Acheta domesticus responds to phonotactically attractive calls with decrement: a reduction in the number of action potentials in response to consecutive sound pulses within a chirp. Such unique response has been reported only in virgin females. This study evaluates the response of the L3 in male-exposed females to determine whether they respond to auditory stimuli differently from those exhibited by virgin female crickets.
Preliminary data indicate that L3 in young exposed female crickets responds with different decrement patterns as those reported for virgin females. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Dosunmu, Shekinah, "The Impact of Male-Exposure in the Neuronal Response of the L3 Auditory Intemeuron to Model Calls" (2019). Honors Theses. 201.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/201
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/201
Subject Area
Crickets--Behavior; Crickets--Effect of sound on
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/201
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