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

我建议研究5种昆虫和蜘蛛的性交流信号和系统，这些信号和系统似乎为节肢动物交流生态学中悬而未决的问题提供了线索。其中包括信号类型和信号环境之间的关系（目标1：蛛网结构是否影响蜘蛛振动信号的特征？），攻击性交配系统中的配偶操纵手段（目标2：什么是使潜在配偶进入恍惚状态的手段？），以及微生物作为生物通信信号在无尾虫、原始或古代昆虫（如蒂萨龙）中的参与(目标3：thysanurans使用微生物通信信号吗？链翅目（目的4:strepsipteran Xenos peckii）或lymantriid蛾（目的5:gypsy moth， lymantriia dispar，参与生物声学通信吗？）的通信系统完全未知（链翅目）或可能比之前得出的结论更复杂（lymantriid蛾），因此建议对它们的通信信号进行研究或重新调查。

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).