TY  - JOUR
A1  - Palghat Udayashankar, Arun
A1  - Kössl, Manfred
A1  - Nowotny, Manuela
T1  - Lateralization of travelling wave response in the hearing organ of Bushcrickets
T2  - PLoS One
N2  - Travelling waves are the physical basis of frequency discrimination in many vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, including mammals, birds, and some insects. In bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae), the crista acustica is the hearing organ that has been shown to use sound-induced travelling waves. Up to now, data on mechanical characteristics of sound-induced travelling waves were only available along the longitudinal (proximal-distal) direction. In this study, we use laser Doppler vibrometry to investigate in-vivo radial (anterior-posterior) features of travelling waves in the tropical bushcricket Mecopoda elongata. Our results demonstrate that the maximum of sound-induced travelling wave amplitude response is always shifted towards the anterior part of the crista acustica. This lateralization of the travelling wave response induces a tilt in the motion of the crista acustica, which presumably optimizes sensory transduction by exerting a shear motion on the sensory cilia in this hearing organ.
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32844
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-328443
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2014 Palghat Udayashankar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 9
IS  - (1):e86090
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -