Lateralization of travelling wave response in the hearing organ of bushcrickets.

Travelling waves are the physical basis of frequency discrimination in many vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, including mammals, birds, and some insects. In bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae), the crista acustica is the hearing organ that has been shown to use sound-induced travelling waves. Up to now, da...

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Main Authors: Arun Palghat Udayashankar, Manfred Kössl, Manuela Nowotny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3897617?pdf=render