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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"stridulation"”.
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Pharmacological studies on the contribution of the neuropeptide proctolin to the cephalic control of singing behavior in grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus (L.1758)
… und Lautmuster weitgehend der natürlichen Stridulation. Verglichen mit der durch Muskarin ausgelösten Stridulation tritt das durch Proktolin induzierte Verhalten zwar nach kürzerer Latenz auf, ist aber auch von kürzerer Dauer. Gesangsstimulation durch Proktolin erfolgt dabei unabhängig von …
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Sound Production in Two Loricariid Catfishes
… of catfish produce sounds via pectoral spine stridulation and/or swim bladder compression using sonic muscles attached to the swim bladder. The sound production capabilities and characteristics in Loricariidae, the largest catfish family, have not been well examined. Sounds produced by two …
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Variation in sound production of the blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus.
… are capable of producing disturbance calls via stridulation of the pectoral spine. These sounds can be made in air and water, and catfish can be preyed upon by both aerial and underwater predators. I characterized these putative distress calls by recording them in air and in the fish’s natural …
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A Portfolio of original compositions (Barry O'Halpin)
… technique, also featuring mimesis of beetle stridulation. The portfolio culminates in the four-movement ensemble work Wingform. Extracting a wealth of materials from a short mosquito-swarm sample, it combines the earlier systematic mimetic spectrality with the later technical and stylistic …
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Morphological, ethological and genomic discrimination of functional stocks of spotted grunter, an estuarine-dependent fish
… as the name suggests- ‘grunting' sounds, by stridulation of their pharyngeal teeth, which are amplified by the swim bladder. These sounds are species specific in terms of a number of acoustic properties. With respect to turbidity, it was hypothesised that the acoustic properties of voicings …