Symposium on Acoustic Communication in Anurans and Insects, to be held in Los Angeles, CA December 27-30, 1993

9307634 Doherty将于1993年12月27-30日举行为期一天的研讨会，题为“无尾两栖动物和昆虫的声学交流：行为、神经生理学和进化中的共同机制”，作为美国动物学家协会全国会议的一部分。青蛙和昆虫的声音交流方式可能非常相似。在这两个分类群中，雄性发出的声音会引起其他雄性或潜在雌性配偶的反应。这些响应可以是朝向或远离声源的声音或运动。科学家在研究青蛙和昆虫的声学通信的生理和进化机制时所使用的研究方法有明显的趋同。本次研讨会将汇聚无尾两栖动物和昆虫声音通讯的研究人员，以确定无尾两栖动物和昆虫在行为、神经生理和进化机制上的异同。主题将包括合唱和信号相互作用，信号能量学，声音识别和定位的行为和神经机制，遗传性和性别选择。这次研讨会应该在研究这些独立的动物分类群的研究人员之间建立几个新的桥梁，并导致未来的研究努力，这些研究工作综合并建立在所有动物声音通信研究人员的工作基础上。

9307634 Doherty A one-day symposium entitled "Acoustic Communication in Anurans and Insects: Common Mechanisms in Behavior, Neurophysiology and Evolution" will be held as part of the national meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, December 27-30, 1993. Frogs and insects can be quite similar in their modes of sound communication. In both taxa, males produce sounds that elicit a response in other males or in potential female mates. These responses may be sounds or movements towards or away from the sound source. There is clear convergence in the research methods used by scientists studying the physiological and evolutionary mechanisms of acoustic communication in frogs and insects. This symposium will bring together researchers in anuran and insect sound communication to identify similarities and differences in the behavioral, neurophysiological and evolutionary mechanisms of acoustic communication in anurans and insects. Topics will include chorusing and signal interaction, signalling energetics, behavioral and neural mechanisms of sound recognition and localization, heritability and sexual selection. This symposium should build several new bridges between researchers studying these separate zoological taxa and lead to future research efforts that synthesize and build upon the work of all investigators of animal sound communication.