Comparative Hearing: Insects

This volume on insects introduces the hearing research community and entomologists to the extensive literature on the ways that insects detect and process sounds. Each of the chapters is written by a leading expert in the field, and together they comprise the first comprehensive treatment of insect hearing. Comparative Hearing: Insects provides reviews of the behavior, physiology, mechanics and biophysics of insect hearing. It gives the reader considerable insight into insect hearing as well as applications to other animal models.

Inhalt
1 Acute as a Bug's Ear: An Informal Discussion of Hearing in Insects.- 2 Biophysics of Sound Localization in Insects.- 3 The Sensory Ecology of Acoustic Communication in Insects.- 4 Development of the Insect Auditory System.- 5 Neural Processing of Acoustic Signals.- 6 The Evolutionary Innovation of Tympanal Hearing in Diptera.- 7 The Vibrational Sense of Spiders.- 8 The Sensory Coevolution of Moths and Bats.