Cricket as a Model Organism

Cricket as a Model Organism

Development, Regeneration, and Behavior

Horch, Hadley Wilson; Mito, Taro; Popadic, Aleksandar; Noji, Sumihare; Ohuchi, Hideyo

Springer Verlag, Japan

07/2018

376

Mole

Inglês

9784431567981

15 a 20 dias

797

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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.
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Neuroethology;Genome editing;CRISPR/Cas;RNA interference;Evolution and development;Regeneration;Learning and memory;Circadian clocks;Neuronal plasticity;Aggression;Cercal escape behavior;Entomophagy;Pest control