The auditory pathway in the ventral cord of the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria): Response transmission in the axons

1978 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Kalmring ◽  
Roland K�hne ◽  
Fritz Moysich
Keyword(s):  
Locusta Migratoria ◽  
Auditory Pathway ◽  
Migratory Locust ◽  
Ventral Cord

scholarly journals Response recovery in the locust auditory pathway

2016 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 510-519
Author(s):  
Sarah Wirtssohn ◽  
Bernhard Ronacher
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Auditory Processing ◽  
Locusta Migratoria ◽  
Nonlinear Effects ◽  
Auditory Pathway ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Spike Timing ◽  
Waveform Analysis ◽  
Grasshopper Species ◽  
Response Recovery

Temporal resolution and the time courses of recovery from acute adaptation of neurons in the auditory pathway of the grasshopper Locusta migratoria were investigated with a response recovery paradigm. We stimulated with a series of single click and click pair stimuli while performing intracellular recordings from neurons at three processing stages: receptors and first and second order interneurons. The response to the second click was expressed relative to the single click response. This allowed the uncovering of the basic temporal resolution in these neurons. The effect of adaptation increased with processing layer. While neurons in the auditory periphery displayed a steady response recovery after a short initial adaptation, many interneurons showed nonlinear effects: most prominent a long-lasting suppression of the response to the second click in a pair, as well as a gain in response if a click was preceded by a click a few milliseconds before. Our results reveal a distributed temporal filtering of input at an early auditory processing stage. This set of specified filters is very likely homologous across grasshopper species and thus forms the neurophysiological basis for extracting relevant information from a variety of different temporal signals. Interestingly, in terms of spike timing precision neurons at all three processing layers recovered very fast, within 20 ms. Spike waveform analysis of several neuron types did not sufficiently explain the response recovery profiles implemented in these neurons, indicating that temporal resolution in neurons located at several processing layers of the auditory pathway is not necessarily limited by the spike duration and refractory period.

scholarly journals SURVIVAL OF MIGRATORY LOCUST AT DIFFERENT KEEPING CONDITIONS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.B. Gerus ◽  
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Y.S. Tokarev ◽  
G.R. Lednev ◽  
M.B. Levchenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rate ◽  
Locusta Migratoria ◽  
Migratory Locust ◽  
Locusta Migratoria Migratorioides ◽  
Gregarious Locusts

In this article we studied the conditions for keeping two species of gregarious locusts: the African migratory locust (Locusta migratoria migratorioides) and the Asian migratory locust (Locusta migratoria migratoria) in open and shaded areas. Based on the data obtained, it is shown that the survival rate of insects of the non-diapausal subspecies was higher in comparison with the obligate monovoltine.

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