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A study was made of the influence of corpora allata (CA) on the formation of directional motor reactions (MR) of males and females of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus Deg. to sound stimulation.
It was found that the presence of the CA and, accordingly, of the juvenile hormone (JH) in the hemolymph, is necessary for development and maintaining of high sensitivity of females to the calling signal of males (model with carrier frequency 5 kHz) and to signals of danger (tone 25 kHz), as well as for formation an adequate relationship of MR of different types in the process of imaginai ontogeny both in males and females. The disturbances of normal development of acoustic communication observed in allatectomized (CAx) crickets may be due to the absence of JH proper and (or) to insufficient development of hormone-dependent organs, for example, gonads.
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Knyazev, A.N., Chudakova, I.V. (1990). Hormonal Regulation of Acoustic Communications in Crickets. In: Gribakin, F.G., Wiese, K., Popov, A.V. (eds) Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6410-7_46
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