Publication Date:
1992-11-13
Description:
Parasitism is a widespread and diverse life strategy that connects species throughout the animal kingdom. Female parasitoid flies of the genus Ormia must find a specific cricket host on which to deposit their parasitic maggots. To reproduce, female flies must perform the same task as female crickets: find a singing male cricket. These flies have evolved a unique hearing organ that allows them to detect and locate singing male crickets. Through evolutionary convergence, these flies possess a hearing organ that much more resembles a cricket's ear than a typical fly's ear, allowing these parasitoids to take advantage of the sensory ecological niche of their host.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Robert, D -- Amoroso, J -- Hoy, R R -- DC00103/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Nov 13;258(5085):1135-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1439820" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acoustic Stimulation
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Animals
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*Biological Evolution
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Diptera/anatomy & histology/*physiology
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Ear/anatomy & histology
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Female
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Gryllidae/*parasitology
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*Hearing
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Male
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Sex Characteristics
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Sound
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Vocalization, Animal
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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