@article {58377, title = {Female house crickets,Acheta domesticus, prefer the chirps of large males}, year = {1997}, abstract = {

This study demonstrates that invertebrate acoustic signals can provide information about male phenotypic attributes, and that females can use this acoustic information in mate choice to select a phenotypically superior mate. I investigated the relationships between a male acoustic sexual signal, the phenotype of the signaller, and the female response to signal variation. I recorded and analysed the calling songs of male house crickets,Acheta domesticus. The analyses showed that chirps convey information about male size. With the exception of amplitude, the mean number of pulses per chirp was the best predictor of male size. I performed a laboratory tape-playback experiment to determine female preference during phonotaxis. Females preferred tapes playing the chirps of large males, specifically chirps with a greater number of pulses per chirp. Selection on the female preference is discussed.

}, doi = {10.1006/anbe.1997.0584}, url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0003347297905844https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0003347297905844?httpAccept=text/xmlhttps://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0003347297905844?httpAccept=text/plain}, author = {GRAY, DAVID A} } @mastersthesis {57408, title = {TRANS-GENERATIONAL AND REPRODUCTIVE IMPACTS OF ACUTE EARLY-LIFE RADIATION ON THE HOUSE CRICKET, ACHETA DOMESTICUS}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

Stress is ubiquitous for all organisms, however, impacts vary depending on type and strength of the stressor, as well as the organism\’s tolerance. Moreover, stress responses can be described by several models; linear, threshold, or hormetic. Generally ionizing radiation has been described by a \“linear no threshold\” model where all exposure has negative impacts. However, considerable research, both past and present, suggests that a \“hormetic\” or threshold model may better describe radiation exposure. My research focused on adult male house crickets, (Acheta domesticus), and the effects of early-life radiation on a variety of life history and reproductive traits, molecular biomarkers, and trans-generational impacts. Each life history and reproductive trait was also analyzed for its dose-response relationship.

Males exposed to radiation showed threshold responses in both hatching success (of 200 eggs) as well as mating success. Doses below 7Gy showed no decline in hatching success nor mating success, whereas above this threshold severe declines occurred, with 12Gy males being sterile. Sexual signals, both acoustic and chemical, were also altered by exposure. Life history traits in F0 males included a dose-dependent reduction in growth rate. Hormetic responses emerged in longevity and survivorship in 7Gy and 10Gy males and their offspring. The dose response relationship for most life-history and reproductive traits analyzed were best described by quadratic and non-linear models. Responses to radiation were also reflected by DNA methylation in F0 and F1 offspring. Generally, radiation impacts on life-history and reproductive traits were best described by non-linear modelling. Multiple aspects of sexual signalling were disrupted by radiation, including courtship signalling and pheromone signatures. Finally, radiation impacts emerged in F1 offspring that expressed significantly extended longevity and superior survivorship with no large reduction in growth rate.

}, author = {TAMARA M. FUCIARELLI} } @article {53136, title = {Aggressiveness, Territoriality, and Sexual Behavior in Field Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)}, journal = {Behaviour}, volume = {17}, year = {1961}, month = {Jan-01-1961}, pages = {130 - 223}, abstract = {

Most contacts between adult male field crickets involve aggressive behavior by one or both individuals and terminate with the obvious retreat of one individual. Aggressive behavior consists of one or more of several actions: in mild encounters there is either rearing of the forebody, lashing of the antennae, and shaking of the body, or else rearing of the hind body, kicking with the hind legs, and shaking of the body; in intense encounters, antennal lashing and rearing of the forebody are followed by spreading the mandibles, stridulating distinctively, rushing forward, sparring with the forelegs, butting with the head, and grappling, wrestling, or biting with the mandibles. A male is often flipped back or thrown sideways, but mutilation as a result of fighting is rare, and only in the most intense encounters is the winner determined by what seems to be superior strength or fighting ability. The outcomes of most encounters are determined by the relative tenacity of the two males, and the intensity of aggression exhibited is correlated with the length of the fight, continued aggressive activity developing into increasingly severe combat until one male finally retreats. Groups of adult male field crickets caged in small arenas form essentially linear dominance hierarchies which are stable for short periods of time and which can be described in terms of several characteristics: (1) each male dominates all or nearly all of his encounters with males below him in the hierarchy, (2) the total number of encounters by individual males decreases gradually toward the bottom of the hierarchy, (3) the intensity of aggression exhibited during encounters decreases more or less gradually toward the bottom of the hierarchy and the numbers of no-decision and no-aggression encounters and actively homosexual contacts increase, and (4) encounters between males which rank next to each other are usually more intense than encounters between males which are far apart in the hierarchy.

}, issn = {0005-7959}, doi = {10.1163/156853961X00042}, url = {http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/10.1163/156853961x00042} } @article {52558, title = {Biophysik der Schallerzeugung durch die Vorderfl{\"u}gel der Grillen}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Vergleichende Physiologie}, volume = {74}, year = {1971}, month = {Jan-01-1971}, pages = {272 - 314}, abstract = {

In several cricket species (Gryllus campestris L., Gryllus bimaculatus de Geer, and Acheta domesticus L.) the sound-radiating parts of the tegmen have been determined for the calling song. The oscillatory properties of these structures have been analysed.

1.
Extirpation of one harp-area (Fig. 2) lowered the sound pressure level of the first maximum (4\–5 kHz) in the sound frequency spectrogram by 18 dB on the average (Fig. 4). This drop was partially reversed by installation of plastic substitutes (Fig. 5).

2.
The radiated sound can be changed by excising teeth on the pars stridens. By this means the damping characteristics of the tegminal resonator were calculated. The logarithmic decrements were between 0.086 and 0.262, depending on the animal.

3.
The sound level distribution on the surface of the tegmen of stridulating males was measured for the 5 kHz-component of the calling song. The fact that a distinct maximum of sound pressure was located on the harp (Fig. 7) demonstrates the sound-radiating function of this structure.

4.
The sound distribution around stridulating animals was measured in the equatorial and median planes (Fig. 8). The sound-radiation is directed. Microphone probe measurements in the 12 mm long cavity under the elevated tegmina showed a caudad directed sound-level-gradient of 9.3 dB on the average.

5.
The cavity under the tegmina has no resonator properties.

6.
The resonance frequency of the harp was calculated to be 5.6 kHz. This value corresponds closely to the measured resonance frequency of the harp, which varies with different specimens of Gryllus campestris from 4.2\–5.4 kHz.

7.
Motion pictures of the wing covered with cork powder and excited with sound showed in a direct way the resonator properties of the harp and the mirror (Fig. 9).

8.
The resonance curve of the harp was determined (Fig. 10), and it was shown that the harp is a uniform and linear resonance system (Figs. 11 and 12). The harp frame has no resonator function (Fig. 13).

9.
The amplitude of the harp displacement in response to a sound pulse is an exponential function for the building-up-transient as well as for the dying-out-transient (Figs. 14 and 15).\—From the resonance curve and the dying-out-transient the expected phaseshift between the driving force and the resonator displacement can be calculated. Calculated and experimentally determined values for the phase-shift are in good agreement (Fig. 17).

10.
Characteristics of the harp resonator (Q-factor, resonance frequency, response-threshold) were determined. The resonators of the right and left tegmen are differently tuned.

There is a close correlation between the resonance frequency of the harp and the location of the first maximum in the sound frequency spectrogram of the calling song (Table 3).

11.
In comparison with the pressure level of the radiated sound, the response threshold of the harp is rather low. For this reason a stridulating cricket can throw the harp of another animal into resonance (Fig. 18). This has been shown experimentally over distances up to 150 cm.

12.
The harp was artificially damped with a mass and the displacement of the resonance frequency was determined (Fig. 19). From this displacement the mass of the harp was calculated.

13.
In comparison with the harp the mirror is more strongly damped and it is tuned to a higher frequency of 7.2 kHz (Fig. 20 and Table 2).

14.
The tegminal resonators (harp and mirror) of Gryllus bimaculatus and Acheta domesticus (Fig. 21 and Table 2) are comparable to those of Gryllus campestris which have been studied in detail.

}, issn = {0340-7594}, doi = {10.1007/BF00297730}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF00297730}, author = {Nocke, Harald} } @article {47895, title = {Evolution of a Communication System by Sensory Exploitation of Startle Behavior}, journal = {Current Biology}, volume = {25}, year = {2015}, month = {Jan-12-2015}, pages = {3245 - 3252}, abstract = {

New communication signals can evolve by sensory exploitation if signaling taps into preexisting sensory biases in receivers [1 ;\  2]. For mate attraction, signals are typically similar to attractive environmental cues like food [3; 4; 5 ;\  6], which amplifies their attractiveness to mates, as opposed to aversive stimuli like predator cues. Female field crickets approach the low-frequency calling song of males, whereas they avoid high-frequency sounds like predatory bat calls [7]. In one group of crickets (Eneopterinae: Lebinthini), however, males produce exceptionally high-frequency calling songs in the range of bat calls [8], a surprising signal in the context of mate attraction. We found that female lebinthines, instead of approaching singing males, produce vibrational responses after male calls, and males track the source of vibrations to find females. We also demonstrate that field cricket species closely related to the Lebinthini show an acoustic startle response to high-frequency sounds that generates substrate vibrations similar to those produced by female lebinthine crickets. Therefore, the startle response is the most likely evolutionary origin of the female lebinthine vibrational signal. In field crickets, the brain receives activity from two auditory interneurons; AN1 tuned to male calling song controls positive phonotaxis, and AN2 tuned to high-frequency bat calls triggers negative phonotaxis [9 ;\  10]. In lebinthine crickets, however, we found that auditory ascending neurons are only tuned to high-frequency sounds, and their tuning matches the thresholds for female vibrational signals. Our results demonstrate how sensory exploitation of anti-predator behavior can evolve into a communication system that benefits both senders and receivers.

}, issn = {09609822}, doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.064}, url = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982215013585}, author = {ter Hofstede, Hannah M. and Sch{\"o}neich, Stefan and Tony Robillard and Hedwig, Berthold} } @article {47792, title = {Bioacoustic studies on some cricket species (Insecta:Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from Romania}, journal = {Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii {\quotedblbase}Al. I. Cuza{\textquotedblright} Iaşi, s. Biologie animală}, volume = {LIV}, year = {2008}, pages = {57-64}, chapter = {57}, abstract = {

There are 9 cricket species known from Romania belonging to the family Gryllidae. The ordinary stridulation of 7 species of those has been analyzed in this paper. The species belonging to the subfamily Gryllinae: Gryllus campestris, Acheta domestica, Melanogryllus desertus, Modicogryllus frontalis and Modicogryllus truncatus stridulate especially in the afternoon and in the evening, rarely during daytime, meanwhile the species Pteronemobius heydenii from the subfamily Nemobiinae stridulate only during daytime and especially by sunny weather, while the only species belonging to the subfamily Oecanthinae from our country fauna, Oecanthus pellucens, stridulate at night, very rarely during daytime (mostly in autumn). Details of the stridulatory vein and identification criteria for the studied cricket species are presented in this paper; also we have annalysed the spectrograms and the oscillograms for the ordinary stridulation of the 7 species. The species Modicogryllus truncatus, collected at Mărăşeşti, is a new report for Moldavia.

}, keywords = {bioacoustics, crickets, oscillogram, spectrogram}, author = {Ionut Stefan Iorgu and Gheorghe Mustata} } @article {17175, title = {Influence of syllable period on song encoding properties of an ascending auditory interneuron in the cricketAcheta domestica}, journal = {Journal of Comparative Physiology A}, volume = {165}, year = {1989}, month = {Jan-01-1989}, pages = {827 - 836}, issn = {0340-7594}, doi = {10.1007/BF00610881}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF00610881}, author = {Atkins, Steven and Atkins, Gordon and Rhodes, Mike and Stout, John F.} } @article {17173, title = {Changes in phonotaxis by the female cricket Acheta domesticus L. after killing identified acoustic interneurons}, journal = {Journal of Comparative Physiology A}, volume = {154}, year = {1984}, month = {Jan-01-1984}, pages = {795 - 804}, issn = {0340-7594}, doi = {10.1007/BF00610680}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF00610680}, author = {Atkins, Gordon and Ligman, Scott and Burghardt, Frederick and Stout, John F.} }