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Invertebrate Auditory Receptors

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Comparative Aspects of Mechanoreceptor Systems

Part of the book series: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology ((COMPARATIVE,volume 10))

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If we define ears as any structure that can detect sound waves, then a review of auditory receptors in arthropods is faced with the problem of treating a great diversity of sound waves employed in this large taxon, either for social communication, or for the detection of predators or prey. Hearing may then include the detection of sound waves in air or water, the various kinds of waves in solids, at the water/air interface etc. At the same time, there is an enormous variety of mechanoreceptors involved in the detection of sound, and some of these are not even specialized for detecting a particular kind of sound. For example, any arthropod sensillum that usually monitors stress or strain in the cuticle may in addition respond to substrate vibrations. The sensory organ in the second segment of the antenna (Johnston’s organ) may function in the near-field as a displacement sound receptor in mosquitoes and Drosophila (Ewing 1978), as a device for autocommunicative echolocation in gyrinid beetles using water surface waves (Rudolph 1967; Tucker 1969) or as a sense organ involved in the regulation of insect flight or the control of swimming behaviour (Burkhardt and Schneider 1957; Gewecke et al. 1974; Gewecke 1980), to mention only a few. Considerations of space prevent us from reviewing the great variety of receptor types in arthropods, and we will focus here on receptors responding to airborne sound and to substrate vibrations. However, at the end of this chapter we offer the reader a list of articles dealing with aspects of hearing in arthropods that are not covered in this review.

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Römer, H., Tautz, J. (1992). Invertebrate Auditory Receptors. In: Ito, F. (eds) Comparative Aspects of Mechanoreceptor Systems. Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76690-9_9

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