Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Biology
First Advisor
Gordon Atkins
Abstract
Hormones modulate phonotactic behaviors of female crickets (Acheta domesticus). This project seeks to observe the changes in phonotactic behavior when anti-histamine is injected in the prothoracic ganglion. The anti-histamine used, pyrilamine, resulted in older, unselective females becoming more selective to the male calling songs. Females injected with saline (controls) remained unselective. The experiments with pyrilamine (anti-histamine) validates histamine's proposed role on phonotactic selectivity by enhancing inhibition of syllable period selective neural circuits in the prothoracic ganglion.
Recommended Citation
Chung, Kristin, "The Effects of Pyrilamine on the Selectivity of Phonotaxis" (2012). Honors Theses. 36.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/36/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/36
Subject Area
Crickets--Behavior, House cricket--Behavior, Insect hormones.
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/36/
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