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Beyond the exponential horn: a bush-cricket with ear canals which function as coupled resonators.
Celiker, Emine; Woodrow, Charlie; Rocha-Sánchez, Aurora Y; Chivers, Benedict D; Barrientos-Lozano, Ludivina; Montealegre-Z, Fernando.
Afiliação
  • Celiker E; University of Lincoln, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Joseph Banks Laboratories, Green Lane, Lincoln LN6 7DL, UK.
  • Woodrow C; University of Lincoln, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Joseph Banks Laboratories, Green Lane, Lincoln LN6 7DL, UK.
  • Rocha-Sánchez AY; Tecnológico Nacional de México-I. T. de Ciudad Victoria, Blvd. Emilio Portes Gil No. 1301, Ciudad Victoria, C.P. 87010 Tamaulipas, México.
  • Chivers BD; University of Lincoln, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Joseph Banks Laboratories, Green Lane, Lincoln LN6 7DL, UK.
  • Barrientos-Lozano L; Tecnológico Nacional de México-I. T. de Ciudad Victoria, Blvd. Emilio Portes Gil No. 1301, Ciudad Victoria, C.P. 87010 Tamaulipas, México.
  • Montealegre-Z F; University of Lincoln, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Joseph Banks Laboratories, Green Lane, Lincoln LN6 7DL, UK.
R Soc Open Sci ; 9(10): 220532, 2022 Oct.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36312569
Bush-crickets have dual-input, tympanal ears located in the tibia of their forelegs. The sound will first of all reach the external sides of the tympana, before arriving at the internal sides through the bush-cricket's ear canal, the acoustic trachea (AT), with a phase lapse and pressure gain. It has been shown that for many bush-crickets, the AT has an exponential horn-shaped morphology and function, producing a significant pressure gain above a certain cut-off frequency. However, the underlying mechanism of different AT designs remains elusive. In this study, we demonstrate that the AT of the duetting Phaneropterinae bush-cricket Pterodichopetala cieloi function as coupled resonators, producing sound pressure gains at the sex-specific conspecific calling song frequency, and attenuating the remainder-a functioning mechanism significantly different from an exponential horn. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that despite the sexual dimorphism between the P. cieloi AT, both male and female AT have a similar biophysical mechanism. The analysis was carried out using an interdisciplinary approach, where micro-computed tomography was used for the morphological properties of the P. cieloi AT, and a finite-element analysis was applied on the precise tracheal geometry to further justify the experimental results and to go beyond experimental limitations.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article