What is an Insect Ear
What is an Insect Ear
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什么是昆虫耳朵
DOI：
10.1093/aesa/86.6.677
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发表时间：
1993
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
J. Fullard
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作者：
J. Yack;J. Fullard
虽然过去许多昆虫都有听觉或耳朵，但这些已发表的例子中的一些可能并不代表适应性进化的感觉能力或结构。例如，某些声称的对声音的神经或行为反应的情况可能归因于实验中使用的高声音强度导致的非专门化角质层的共振。此外，表皮结构已被确定为鼓膜器官，但尚未显示出作为听觉器官的功能。我们建议在得出听觉存在的结论之前，满足与形态学，生理学和自然行为相关的三个标准。在这篇文章中，我们调查文献的例子，缺乏一个或多个这些标准的研究，并建议这些研究可以作为进一步调查的动机，由感官生理学家，行为学家和神经行为学家。
Although a sense of hearing, or the possession of ears, has been ascribed to many insects in the past, some of these published examples may not represent adaptively evolved sensory capabilities or structures. Certain purported cases of neural or behavioral responses to sound, for example, may be attributed to the resonation of nonspecialized cuticle which results from the high sound intensities used in the experiments. In addition, cuticular structures have been identified as tympanal organs without having been shown to function as hearing organs. We recommend that three criteria related to morphology, physiology, and natural behavior be satisfied before concluding that a sense of hearing exists. In this article, we survey the literature for examples of studies that lack one or more of these criteria and suggest that these studies can serve as incentives for further investigations by sensory physiologists, behaviorists, and neuroethologists.