Date of Award
2011
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Biology
First Advisor
Gordon Atkins
Abstract
The goal of this project was to determine if picrotoxin influences phonotactic selectivity of female crickets when nanoinjected into the supraesophageal ganglion. Adult females of Acheta domesticus were pre-tested for phonotaxis on a treadmill to a range of calling songs with different syllable periods. Following dissection to expose the brain, 9.2 nL of either saline (control group) or 10-5 M picrotoxin (experimental group) was nanoinjected into the supraesophageal ganglion. Post-tests following saline injection (10 min later) were similar to the pre-tests. Picrotoxin-treated females became more phonotactically selective displaying a preference for calling songs with the shorter syllable periods.
Recommended Citation
Sherwin, Brent H., "The Role of CI(-) Channel-inhibition in the Brain on the Phonotactic Selectivity of Female Crickets" (2011). Honors Theses. 8.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/8/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/8
Subject Area
Picrotoxin., Crickets--Effect of sound on, Crickets--Behavior
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/8/
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