Author: Robert Alex Mohr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The reception and processing of socially relevant auditory signals is crucial for the reproduction and survival of many species including the plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus. Numerous behavioral, physiological and neuroanatomical studies have made P. notatus a robust model system for studying vocal acoustic communication. The ways in which fish are able to perceive acoustic information varies across species and I will detail the underlying morphological structures, including the swim bladder, that fish have adapted to enhance underwater hearing. I characterize the morphology of the midshipman swim bladder chapter two, in each of the three sexual phenotypes; females, type I and type II males. Using micro-computerized tomography I measure and quantify the swim bladder’s shape and relative distance to the inner ear organs in each midshipman sexual phenotype. In chapter three, using the immediate early gene cFos as a marker for neuronal activation, I quantify the response properties of gravid female midshipman to both conspecific advertisement calls and heterospecific white seabass calls. Specifically, I demonstrate the brain areas differentially activated during the perception of these socially relevant acoustic signals. To assess the role of the swim bladder in the neural processing of acoustic signals, in chapter four I conducted playback of conspecific advertisement calls to reproductive females with their swim bladders experimentally removed. Finally, in chapter five, I summarize the conclusions of my work as well as the broader implications and suggestions for future studies.
Neural Response Patterns to Social Acoustic Signals and the Role of the Sexually Dimorphic Swim Bladder in the Plainfin Midshipman Fish, Porichthys Notatus
Author: Robert Alex Mohr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The reception and processing of socially relevant auditory signals is crucial for the reproduction and survival of many species including the plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus. Numerous behavioral, physiological and neuroanatomical studies have made P. notatus a robust model system for studying vocal acoustic communication. The ways in which fish are able to perceive acoustic information varies across species and I will detail the underlying morphological structures, including the swim bladder, that fish have adapted to enhance underwater hearing. I characterize the morphology of the midshipman swim bladder chapter two, in each of the three sexual phenotypes; females, type I and type II males. Using micro-computerized tomography I measure and quantify the swim bladder’s shape and relative distance to the inner ear organs in each midshipman sexual phenotype. In chapter three, using the immediate early gene cFos as a marker for neuronal activation, I quantify the response properties of gravid female midshipman to both conspecific advertisement calls and heterospecific white seabass calls. Specifically, I demonstrate the brain areas differentially activated during the perception of these socially relevant acoustic signals. To assess the role of the swim bladder in the neural processing of acoustic signals, in chapter four I conducted playback of conspecific advertisement calls to reproductive females with their swim bladders experimentally removed. Finally, in chapter five, I summarize the conclusions of my work as well as the broader implications and suggestions for future studies.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The reception and processing of socially relevant auditory signals is crucial for the reproduction and survival of many species including the plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus. Numerous behavioral, physiological and neuroanatomical studies have made P. notatus a robust model system for studying vocal acoustic communication. The ways in which fish are able to perceive acoustic information varies across species and I will detail the underlying morphological structures, including the swim bladder, that fish have adapted to enhance underwater hearing. I characterize the morphology of the midshipman swim bladder chapter two, in each of the three sexual phenotypes; females, type I and type II males. Using micro-computerized tomography I measure and quantify the swim bladder’s shape and relative distance to the inner ear organs in each midshipman sexual phenotype. In chapter three, using the immediate early gene cFos as a marker for neuronal activation, I quantify the response properties of gravid female midshipman to both conspecific advertisement calls and heterospecific white seabass calls. Specifically, I demonstrate the brain areas differentially activated during the perception of these socially relevant acoustic signals. To assess the role of the swim bladder in the neural processing of acoustic signals, in chapter four I conducted playback of conspecific advertisement calls to reproductive females with their swim bladders experimentally removed. Finally, in chapter five, I summarize the conclusions of my work as well as the broader implications and suggestions for future studies.
Sound Communication in Fishes
Author: Friedrich Ladich
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3709118468
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This volume examines fish sounds that have a proven signal function, as well as sounds assumed to have evolved for communication purposes. It provides an overview of the mechanisms, evolution and neurobiology behind sound production in fishes, and discusses the role of fish sounds in behavior with a special focus on choice of mate, sex-specific and age-specific signaling. Furthermore, it highlights the ontogenetic development of sound communication and ecoacoustical conditions in fish habitats and the influence of hormones on vocal production and sound detection. Sound Communication in Fishes offers a must-have compendium for lecturers, researchers and students working in the fields of animal communication, fish biology, neurobiology and animal behavior.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3709118468
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This volume examines fish sounds that have a proven signal function, as well as sounds assumed to have evolved for communication purposes. It provides an overview of the mechanisms, evolution and neurobiology behind sound production in fishes, and discusses the role of fish sounds in behavior with a special focus on choice of mate, sex-specific and age-specific signaling. Furthermore, it highlights the ontogenetic development of sound communication and ecoacoustical conditions in fish habitats and the influence of hormones on vocal production and sound detection. Sound Communication in Fishes offers a must-have compendium for lecturers, researchers and students working in the fields of animal communication, fish biology, neurobiology and animal behavior.
A Neuroethological Analysis of Acoustic Communication in the Plainfin Midshipman Fish Porichthys Notatus
Author: Jessica Ross McKibben
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Sound Production in Fishes
Author: William N. Tavolga
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air-bladder (in fishes)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air-bladder (in fishes)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts
Author: Society for Neuroscience. Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 1668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 1668
Book Description
Alternative Reproductive Tactics
Author: Rui F. Oliveira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139469525
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behavioural strategies used by individuals to increase their reproductive success) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one of great interest to researchers. For instance, why do some males guard both nest and eggs, while others sneak into nests while pairs are spawning and fertilise those eggs? The field offers a special opportunity to study the evolution and functional causes of phenotypic variation, which is a general problem in the field of evolutionary biology. By integrating both mechanistic (psychological) and evolutionary (behavioural ecology) perspectives and by covering a great diversity of species, Alternative Reproductive Tactics addresses this integrated topic of longstanding interest, bringing together a multitude of otherwise scattered information in an accessible form that is ideal for graduate students and researchers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139469525
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behavioural strategies used by individuals to increase their reproductive success) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one of great interest to researchers. For instance, why do some males guard both nest and eggs, while others sneak into nests while pairs are spawning and fertilise those eggs? The field offers a special opportunity to study the evolution and functional causes of phenotypic variation, which is a general problem in the field of evolutionary biology. By integrating both mechanistic (psychological) and evolutionary (behavioural ecology) perspectives and by covering a great diversity of species, Alternative Reproductive Tactics addresses this integrated topic of longstanding interest, bringing together a multitude of otherwise scattered information in an accessible form that is ideal for graduate students and researchers.
Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behavior
Author: Elena Choleris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521190355
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A comparative overview of the effects of neuropeptides on behavior, examining parallel findings in both humans and non-human animals.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521190355
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A comparative overview of the effects of neuropeptides on behavior, examining parallel findings in both humans and non-human animals.
Communication in Fishes
Author: Friedrich Ladich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Acoustic Communication
Author: Andrea Simmons
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387986618
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In order to communicate, animals send and receive signals that are subject to their particular anatomical, psychological, and environmental constraints. This SHAR volume discusses both the production and perception of acoustic signals. Chapters address the information that animals communicate, how the communication is developed and learned, and how communication systems have adapted and evolved within species. The book will give examples from a variety of species.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387986618
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In order to communicate, animals send and receive signals that are subject to their particular anatomical, psychological, and environmental constraints. This SHAR volume discusses both the production and perception of acoustic signals. Chapters address the information that animals communicate, how the communication is developed and learned, and how communication systems have adapted and evolved within species. The book will give examples from a variety of species.
Perspectives on Animal Behavior
Author: Judith Goodenough
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This work contains both contemporary research findings and historical experimental evidence. It includes the topic animal awareness, and there is requisite background material on genetics and other basic molecular topics.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This work contains both contemporary research findings and historical experimental evidence. It includes the topic animal awareness, and there is requisite background material on genetics and other basic molecular topics.