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Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets

Animals, including insects, change their innate escape behavior triggered by a specific threat stimulus depending on the environmental context to survive adaptively the predators’ attack. This indicates that additional inputs from sensory organs of different modalities indicating surrounding conditi...

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Autores principales: Lu, Anhua, Fukutomi, Matasaburo, Shidara, Hisashi, Ogawa, Hiroto
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37250114
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1153913
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author Lu, Anhua
Fukutomi, Matasaburo
Shidara, Hisashi
Ogawa, Hiroto
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Fukutomi, Matasaburo
Shidara, Hisashi
Ogawa, Hiroto
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description Animals, including insects, change their innate escape behavior triggered by a specific threat stimulus depending on the environmental context to survive adaptively the predators’ attack. This indicates that additional inputs from sensory organs of different modalities indicating surrounding conditions could affect the neuronal circuit responsible for the escape behavior. Field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus, exhibit an oriented running or jumping escape in response to short air puff detected by the abdominal mechanosensory organ called cerci. Crickets also receive a high-frequency acoustic stimulus by their tympanal organs on their frontal legs, which suggests approaching bats as a predator. We have reported that the crickets modulate their wind-elicited escape running in the moving direction when they are exposed to an acoustic stimulus preceded by the air puff. However, it remains unclear how long the effects of auditory inputs indicating surrounding contexts last after the sound is terminated. In this study, we applied a short pulse (200 ms) of 15-kHz pure tone to the crickets in various intervals before the air-puff stimulus. The sound given 200 or 1000 ms before the air puff biased the wind-elicited escape running backward, like the previous studies using the longer and overlapped sound. But the sounds that started 2000 ms before and simultaneously with the air puff had little effect. In addition, the jumping probability was higher only when the delay of air puff to the sound was 1000 ms. These results suggest that the cricket could retain the auditory memory for at least one second and alter the motion choice and direction of the wind-elicited escape behavior.
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spelling pubmed-102144672023-05-27 Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets Lu, Anhua Fukutomi, Matasaburo Shidara, Hisashi Ogawa, Hiroto Front Physiol Physiology Animals, including insects, change their innate escape behavior triggered by a specific threat stimulus depending on the environmental context to survive adaptively the predators’ attack. This indicates that additional inputs from sensory organs of different modalities indicating surrounding conditions could affect the neuronal circuit responsible for the escape behavior. Field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus, exhibit an oriented running or jumping escape in response to short air puff detected by the abdominal mechanosensory organ called cerci. Crickets also receive a high-frequency acoustic stimulus by their tympanal organs on their frontal legs, which suggests approaching bats as a predator. We have reported that the crickets modulate their wind-elicited escape running in the moving direction when they are exposed to an acoustic stimulus preceded by the air puff. However, it remains unclear how long the effects of auditory inputs indicating surrounding contexts last after the sound is terminated. In this study, we applied a short pulse (200 ms) of 15-kHz pure tone to the crickets in various intervals before the air-puff stimulus. The sound given 200 or 1000 ms before the air puff biased the wind-elicited escape running backward, like the previous studies using the longer and overlapped sound. But the sounds that started 2000 ms before and simultaneously with the air puff had little effect. In addition, the jumping probability was higher only when the delay of air puff to the sound was 1000 ms. These results suggest that the cricket could retain the auditory memory for at least one second and alter the motion choice and direction of the wind-elicited escape behavior. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10214467/ /pubmed/37250114 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1153913 Text en Copyright © 2023 Lu, Fukutomi, Shidara and Ogawa. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Physiology
Lu, Anhua
Fukutomi, Matasaburo
Shidara, Hisashi
Ogawa, Hiroto
Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets
title Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets
title_full Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets
title_fullStr Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets
title_full_unstemmed Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets
title_short Persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets
title_sort persistence of auditory modulation of wind-induced escape behavior in crickets
topic Physiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37250114
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1153913
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