ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Masking of an auditory behaviour reveals how male mosquitoes use distortion to detect females.
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- Hitting the right note at the right time: Circadian control of audibility inScience advances · 2022Article
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- Precopulatory acoustic interactions of the New World malaria vector Anopheles albimanus (Diptera: Culicidae).Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- Female resistance and harmonic convergence influence male mating success in Aedes aegypti.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Sex and species specific hearing mechanisms in mosquito flagellar ears.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Masking of an auditory behaviour reveals how male mosquitoes use distortion to detect females.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
The mating behaviour of many mosquito species is mediated essentially by sound: males follow and mate with a female mid-flight by detecting and tracking the whine of her flight-tones. The stereotypical rapid frequency modulation (RFM) male behaviour, initiated in response to the detection of the female's flight-tones, has provided a means of investigating these auditory mechanisms while males are free-flying. Mosquitoes hear with their antennae, which vibrate to near-field acoustic excitation. The antennae generate nonlinear vibrations (distortion products, DPs) at frequencies that are equal to the difference between the two simultaneously presented tones, e.g. the male and female flight-tones, which are detected by mechanoreceptors in the auditory Johnston's organ (JO) at the base of the antenna. Recent studies indicated the male mosquito's JO is tuned not to the female flight-tone, but to the frequency difference between the male and female flight-tones. To test the hypothesis that mosquitoes detect this frequency difference,
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