Cividini Sofia, Montesanto Giuseppe
Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L693BX, UK.
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Learn Behav. 2020 Sep;48(3):281-300. doi: 10.3758/s13420-020-00428-3.
Effective communication is essential in animal life to allow fundamental behavioral processes and survival. Communicating by surface-borne vibrations is likely the most ancient mode of getting and exchanging information in both invertebrates and vertebrates. In this review, we concentrate on the use of vibrational communication in arthropods as a form of intraspecific and interspecific signaling, with a focus on the newest discoveries from our research group in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea), a taxon never investigated before in this context. After getting little attention in the past, biotremology is now an emerging field of study in animal communication, and it is receiving increased interest from the scientific community dealing with these behavioral processes. In what follows, we illustrate the general principles and mechanisms on which biotremology is based, using definitions, examples, and insights from the literature in arthropods. Vibrational communication in arthropods has mainly been studied in insects and arachnids. For these taxa, much evidence of its use as a source of information from the surrounding environment exists, as well as its involvement in many behavioral roles, such as courtship and mating, conspecific recognition, competition, foraging, parental care, and danger perception. Recently, and for the first time, communication through surface-borne waves has been studied in terrestrial isopods, using a common Mediterranean species of the Armadillidae family as a pilot species, Armadillo officinalis Duméril, 1816. Mainly, for this species, we describe typical behavioral processes, such as turn alternation, aggregation, and stridulation, where vibrational communication appears to be involved.
有效的沟通对于动物的生存至关重要，它能让动物进行基本的行为过程。通过体表传播的振动进行交流可能是无脊椎动物和脊椎动物获取和交换信息最古老的方式。在这篇综述中，我们专注于节肢动物中振动通讯作为种内和种间信号传递形式的应用，重点关注我们研究小组在陆生等足类动物（甲壳纲：等足目：潮虫亚目）方面的最新发现，该类群在此之前从未在这一背景下被研究过。在过去很少受到关注之后，生物振动学现在是动物通讯研究中一个新兴的领域，并且正受到处理这些行为过程的科学界越来越多的关注。在接下来的内容中，我们将利用节肢动物文献中的定义、实例和见解来说明生物振动学所基于的一般原理和机制。节肢动物中的振动通讯主要在昆虫和蛛形纲动物中得到研究。对于这些类群，有很多证据表明它可作为来自周围环境的信息源，以及它在许多行为角色中的作用，如求偶和交配、同种识别、竞争、觅食、亲代抚育和危险感知。最近，首次以普通的地中海犰狳科物种犰狳（Armadillo officinalis Duméril，1816）作为实验物种，对陆生等足类动物通过体表传播的波进行了通讯研究。主要针对该物种，我们描述了一些典型的行为过程，如转向交替、聚集和摩擦发声，其中振动通讯似乎发挥了作用。
