The Cricket as a Model Organism : Development, Regeneration, and Behavior /

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Horch, Hadley Wilson. (Editor ), Mito, Taro. (Editor ), Popadić, Aleksandar. (Editor ), Ohuchi, Hideyo. (Editor ), Noji, Sumihare. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edición:1st ed. 2017.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Part I Development and Regeneration
  • 1 History of cricket biology
  • 2 Early development and diversity of Gryllus appendages
  • 3 Leg formation and regeneration
  • 4 Eye development and photoreception of a hemimetabolous insect, Gryllus bimaculatus
  • 5 An early embryonic diapause stage and developmental plasticity in the band-legged ground cricket Dianemobius nigrofasciatus
  • Part II Physiology, Nervous System, and Behavior
  • 6 Molecular approach to the circadian clock mechanism in the cricket
  • 7 Hormonal circadian rhythm in the wing-polymorphic cricket Gryllus firmus: Integrating chronobiology, endocrinology and evolution
  • 8 Plasticity in the cricket central nervous system
  • 9 Learning and memory
  • 10 Neurons and networks underlying singing behaviour
  • 11 The cricket auditory pathway: neural processing of acoustic signals
  • 12 Neuromodulators and the control of aggression in crickets
  • 13 Fighting behavior—Understanding the mechanisms of group size-dependent aggression.
  • 14 Cercal system-mediated anti-predator behaviors
  • 15 The biochemical basis of life history adaptation: Gryllus studies lead the way
  • 16 Reproductive behavior and physiology in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
  • Part III Experimental Approaches
  • 17 Protocols for olfactory conditioning experiments
  • 18 Optical recording methods
  • How to measure of neural activities with Calcium imaging
  • 19 Trackball systems for analyzing cricket phonotaxis
  • 20 Synthetic approaches for observing and measuring cricket behaviors
  • 21 Protocols in the cricket
  • BM Index.