Genetic control of the neuronal network generating cricket (Teleogryllus gryllus) song patterns

Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:1972
Authors:Bentley
Journal:Animal Behaviour
Volume:20
Issue:3
Pagination:478 - 492
Date Published:Jan-08-1972
ISSN:00033472
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Hybrid field crickets between Teleogryllus species and Gryllus species were produced to examine: (a) the genetic system controlling the neuronal network underlying song production: and (b) the neuronal mechanism responsible for the superimposed rhythms of chirping songs. Pulse numbers, intervals, and progressions were subjected to statistical and graphic analyses. Teleogryllus songs are controlled by a complex, polygenic, multichromosomal system, even at the level of ‘unitary’, acoustical parameters. Genes regulating certain pattern characteristics are on the X-chromosome’. The superficially similar chirping songs of two Gryllus species appear due to different neuronal mechanisms. One song appears to reflect a single rhythm generator with some relaxation oscillator properties, while the rhythms of the other song seem to be caused by the mixed effect of two resonant type oscillators.

URL:http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0003347272800125
DOI:10.1016/S0003-3472(72)80012-5
Short Title:Animal Behaviour
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