ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2015
Active amplification in insect ears: mechanics, models and molecules.
Review in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- How Exceptional Is the Ear?Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025Review
- The auditory efferent system in mosquitoes.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Review
- Axonemal Dynein DNAH5 is Required for Sound Sensation in Drosophila Larvae.Neuroscience bulletin · 2021Article
- Coevolution of cognitive abilities and identity signals in individual recognition systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Material stiffness variation in mosquito antennae.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
- Travelling waves and tonotopicity in the inner ear: a historical and comparative perspective.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Review
- Stay tuned: active amplification tunes tree cricket ears to track temperature-dependent song frequency.Biology letters · 2016Article
- Active auditory mechanics in female black‑horned tree crickets (Oecanthus nigricornis).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Article
- Diverse Roles of Axonemal Dyneins in Drosophila Auditory Neuron Function and Mechanical Amplification in Hearing.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Insect hearing: from physics to ecology.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Article
- Concept of an Active Amplification Mechanism in the Infrared Organ of Pyrophilous Melanophila Beetles.Frontiers in physiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Active amplification in auditory systems is a unique and sophisticated mechanism that expends energy in amplifying the mechanical input to the auditory system, to increase its sensitivity and acuity. Although known for decades from vertebrates, active auditory amplification was only discovered in insects relatively recently. It was first discovered from two dipterans, mosquitoes and flies, who hear with their light and compliant antennae; only recently has it been observed in the stiffer and heavier tympanal ears of an orthopteran. The discovery of active amplification in two distinct insect lineages with independently evolved ears, suggests that the trait may be ancestral, and other insects may possess it as well. This opens up extensive research possibilities in the field of acoustic communication, not just in auditory biophysics, but also in behaviour and neurobiology. The scope of this review is to establish benchmarks for identifying the presence of active amplification in an auditory system and to review the evidence we currently have from different insect ears. I also review some of the models that have been posited to explain the mechanism, both from vertebrates and insects and then review the current mechanical, neurobiological and genetic evidence for each of these models.
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