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Pharmacological Activation of Stridulation in the Grasshopper Chorthippus albomarginatus (Orthoptera: Gomphocerinae)

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Calling and courtship stridulatory behavior of Chorthippus albomarginatus was induced by injections of acetylcholine agonists into the protocerebrum. Pharmacologically induced stridulation, in many parameters, was quite similar to the natural behavior. However, the order of the courtship element alternation was different from that of the natural song. In some cases the pharmacologically induced stridulation included only one or two courtship elements. Based on the exclusive stimulation of a particular element of courtship songs and similarity of its movement pattern with the calling song, both patterns of Ch. albomarginatus stridulation appear to be homologous. The results obtained on this species confirm the idea of a hierarchic organization of the central nervous control of stridulation in gomphocerine grasshoppers and indicate participation of certain protocerebrum structures in this control.

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  1. Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, 101447, Russia

    V. Yu. Vedenina

  2. Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, D-37073, Goettingen, Germany

    R. Heinrich & N. Elsner

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Vedenina, V.Y., Heinrich, R. & Elsner, N. Pharmacological Activation of Stridulation in the Grasshopper Chorthippus albomarginatus (Orthoptera: Gomphocerinae). Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology 37, 388–397 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012922828150

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