Multi-modal communication signals in select sexual communication systems of insects and spiders

我建议研究5种昆虫和蜘蛛的性通信信号和系统，这些昆虫和蜘蛛似乎掌握着节肢动物通信生态学中悬而未决的问题的线索。 这些包括信号类型和信号环境之间的关系（目标1：网络结构是否影响蜘蛛中振动信号的特征？），在攻击性交配系统中操纵配偶的手段（目标2：使未来配偶进入恍惚状态的手段是什么？），以及微生物作为生物通讯信号参与无翅、原始或古老的昆虫通讯者，如thysanurans（目标3：thysanurans部署微生物通讯信号吗？）。 链翅目昆虫通讯信号的研究或再调查（目的4：链翅目异齿龙的通讯信号是什么？）或舞毒蛾（目标5：舞毒蛾是否参与生物声学通信？）在这里提出，因为他们的通信系统是完全未知的（Strepsiptera）或可能比以前得出的结论（毒蛾）更复杂。

I propose to study sexual communication signals and systems in 5 species of insects and spiders that appear to hold clues to outstanding questions in arthropod communication ecology. These include the relationship between signal type and signaling environment (Objective 1: Does web architecture affect characteristics of vibratory signals in spiders?), the means of mate manipulation in aggressive mating systems (Objective 2: What are the means of putting a prospective mate into trance?), and involvement of microbes as biotic communication signals in apterous, primitive or ancient insect communicators such as thysanurans (Objective 3: Do thysanurans deploy microbial communication signals?). The study or re-investigation of communication signals in Strepsiptera (Objective 4: What are the communication signals of the strepsipteran Xenos peckii?) or lymantriid moths (Objective 5: Does gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, engage in bioacoustic communication?) is proposed here because their communication systems are completely unknown (Strepsiptera) or likely more complex than previously concluded (lymantriid moths).