The Effects of Injecting Juvenile Hormone III into the Prothoracic Ganglion on Phonotaxis by Female Crickets Gryllus bimaculatus

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2012

Keywords

Call recognition, Crickets, Juvenile Hormone, Selective phonotaxis

Abstract

Nanoinjection of Juvenile Hormone III (JH III) into the prothoracic ganglion causes virgin female crickets Gryllus bimaculatus De Geer to become more phonotactically selective for the syllable periods (SPs) of model calling songs. Females responding to all, or almost all, of the SPs presented before JH III injection significantly narrow their responses to a range of SPs that is usually centered on the SPs included in the conspecific males' calling song. Control injections of acetone (i.e. the solvent for JH III) into the prothoracic ganglion do not significantly change the recipient females' phonotactic responses. Injection of JH III into the metathoracic ganglion also has no effect the females' phonotactic choices. © 2011 The Authors. Physiological Entomology © 2011 The Royal Entomological Society.

Journal Title

Physiological Entomology

Volume

37

Issue

2

First Page

201

Last Page

205

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-3032.2011.00811.x

First Department

Biology

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