Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research, Erbertstraße 1, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Prog Neurobiol. 2020 Nov;194:101882. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101882. Epub 2020 Jul 13.
Field crickets are best known for the loud calling songs produced by males to attract conspecific females. This review aims to summarize the current knowledge of the neurobiological basis underlying the acoustic communication for mate finding in field crickets with emphasis on the recent research progress to understand the neuronal networks for motor pattern generation and auditory pattern recognition of the calling song in Gryllus bimaculatus. Strong scientific interest into the neural mechanisms underlying intraspecific communication has driven persistently advancing research efforts to study the male singing behaviour and female phonotaxis for mate finding in these insects. The growing neurobiological understanding also inspired many studies testing verifiable hypotheses in sensory ecology, bioacoustics and on the genetics and evolution of behaviour. Over last decades, acoustic communication in field crickets served as a very successful neuroethological model system. It has contributed significantly to the scientific process of establishing, reconsidering and refining fundamental concepts in behavioural neurosciences such as command neurons, central motor pattern generation, corollary discharge processing and pattern recognition by sensory feature detection, which are basic building blocks of our modern understanding on how nervous systems control and generate behaviour in all animals.
蟋蟀以雄性发出响亮的求偶叫声吸引同种雌性而闻名。本综述旨在总结蟋蟀求偶声通讯的神经生物学基础的现有知识，重点是最近的研究进展，以了解求偶声的运动模式产生和听觉模式识别的神经元网络。对种内通讯神经机制的强烈科学兴趣促使人们不断努力研究这些昆虫的雄性求偶行为和雌性听觉定向行为。日益增长的神经生物学理解也激发了许多研究，这些研究检验了感官生态学、生物声学以及行为的遗传学和进化方面的可验证假说。在过去几十年中，蟋蟀的声学通讯一直是一个非常成功的神经行为学模型系统。它为行为神经科学中的基本概念的建立、重新考虑和完善做出了重要贡献，如命令神经元、中枢运动模式产生、伴随放电处理和通过感觉特征检测进行模式识别，这些都是我们现代理解神经系统如何控制和产生所有动物行为的基础。
