Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods: Including the First Comprehensive Collection of Contributions by Soviet Scientists

434 Pages·1990·15.72 MB·English

by  Tatyana A. Belousova, Alexey Ye. Redkozubov (auth.), Dr. F. G. Gribakin, Dr. K. Wiese, Dr. A. V. Popov (eds.)

ALS
Advances in Life Sciences
Sensory SysteDls
and CODlDlunication
in Arthropods
Including the First Comprehensive Collection
of Contributions by Soviet Scientists
Edited by
F.G. Gribakin
K. Wiese
A.V.Popov
1990
Springer Basel AG
Editors' addresses:
Dr. RG. Gribakin
Dr. A.V . Popov
Sechenov Institute ofEvolutionary
Physiology and Biochemistry
Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Prospect M. Thoreza 44
194223 Leningrad / USSR
Dr.K. Wiese
Zoologisches Institut
Universität Hamburg
Martin-Luther-King Platz 3
2000 Hamburg 13/ FRG
ISBN 978-3-0348-6412-1 ISBN 978-3-0348-6410-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-0348-6410-7
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The Academy of Sciences USSR
and
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
have sponsored
two bilateral Symposia
on
Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods
This volume reports on the Leningrad symposium
october 8.-15. 1989
The editors of this book are indebted to:
Sergej Kapitzkii, Ieningrad,
Barbara Schmitz, Konstanz,
Theo Weber, Seewiesen,
und Rudolf Steinbrecht, Seewiesen.
jor their jriendly and efflCient help in preparing camera-ready
print-outs oj the contributions.
At Hamburg,
Torsten Rüting, Petra Skiebe and Bemd I.ii.hr
helped with the final synthesis.
VI
PREFACE
Among arthropods one can find enormous numbers of species weH
adapted to vastly different environments. A good part of this achievement is
based on various elaborate behavioural patterns (some stereotyped. some
plastic) which are -as has been learned very recently -realized by relatively
simple neuronal circuits. That is why conspicuous arthropod behaviours are
widely used as model objects in neurobiology when attempts are made to
und erstand behaviour in terms of activity of single nerve cells. or to study
information processing in sensory systems.
In the West neurobiologists working in these fields are actively
cooperative. Russian scientists were for a long time rather isolated because
of political restrictions and due to a language barrier; western scientists are
as a rule. not familiar with the development of this field in Russia. With new
trends in the political athmosphere throughout the world of last years. it
became possible to break down the wall and to start active scientific
cooperation between West and East. That is why the suggestion of Prof.
Markl. the president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. to organize
2 soviet-german symposia on:
"Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods"
(the first in the USSR, the second in Germany)
was actively supported by the USSR Academy of Sciences and several
universities.
The main idea was to create the conditions for free and intensive
exchange of experience between scientists especially young ones working
on arthropods. to establish personal contacts and to define possible ways of
further cooperation.
Since sensory systems can not be understood without knowledge about
their role in behavior and not without knowledge of the conditions of their
functioning in natural environments. specialists in different fields.
(morphology. physiology. zoology. ethology. ecology) were put together with
the intention to develop forms of more integrated approach to sensory
systems when they are not treated as a black box but as parts with
identifiable contributions to the whole system of communication.
The first symposium with about 75 participants (25 from the west) was
organized at Leningrad (october 8-15th) in 1989. This book summarizes the
information presented during this event and the readers are to decide how
successful we were in our efforts to desribe typical systems of
communication in arthropods and what we have learned about the design
and performance of some of the sensory systems involved.
One result is evident. We better und erstand each other. we trust each
other and both sides are open to wide and close co operative contacts in the
future.
Leningrad and Hamburg. spring 1990 The editors
VII
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SYSTEMS OF OLFACTORY COMMUNICATION
MORPHOWGICAL AND ELEC1ROPHYSIOWGICAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF INSECT SENSILIA
Tatyana A. Belousova & Alexey Ye. Redkozubov 3
NEURAL BASIS OF CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION BE'IWEEN
SEXES IN THE AMERICAN COCKROACH.
PERIPLANETA AMERICANA
Jürgen Boeckh 10
CONFORMATIONS OF AMERICAN COCKROACH SEX PHEROMONE
AND ITS MIMIC
Maria B. Bykhovskaya & Boris S. Zhorov 16
PREY SPECIFICI1Y AND PREY RECOGNITION IN THE DIGGER
WASP URIS NIGER FABR.: THE IMPORTANCE OF CWSE RANGE
CHEMICAL CUES
Wemer Gnatzy. Sylvia Anton and Susanne Thier 20
INTRA- AND INTERSPECIFIC CHEMICAL SIGNALS
IN THE TERMITE SCHEDORHINOTERMES
-Production sites. chemistry and behaviour
Manfred Kaib 26
EFFECT OF WWERED p02 ON ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF THE
ANTENNA IN MALES OF PERIPLANETA AMERICANA
Sergej V.Kapitzkii and Felix G. Gribakin 33
TERMITE TRAIL PHEROMONES: SPECIFICIlY AND
BIOSYNTHESIS
Sergej G. Klochkov & Dmitrij P. Zhuzhikov 40
FINE STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF SENSORY SYSTEMS IN TICKS
AND MITES: EVOLUTIONARY AND ETHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Sergej A. Leonovich 44
RECEPTOR POTENTIALS RECORDED FROM INTACT OLFACTORY
SENSILLA OF THE MALE SILKMOTH ANTHERAEA PERNYI
Alexander V. Minor & Tatyana A. Belousova 49
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF INSECT PHEROMONAL
COMMUNICATION
Algirdas Skirkevicius 55
VIII
FINE STRUCTURE OF ANTENNAL CONTACT CHEMORECEPTORS
AFfER CRYOFIXATION
Rudolf Alexander Steinbrecht and Jong-Kyoo Lee 59
FINE STRUCTURE OF INSECT THERMO-/HYGRO-SENSITIVE
SENSILLA AFfER CRYOFIXATION: STRUCTURAL CHANGES
AFfER MOIST- AND DRY- ADAPTATION
Rudolf Alexander Steinbrecht 62
MORPHOPHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF AN INSECT
PHEROMONE SENSORY SYSTEM IN LEPIDOPTERAN AND
HYMENOPTERAN SPECIMENS
Grazina Vaitkeviciene, Aukse Karaliene & Zuzana Skirkeviciene 69
MORPHOPHYSIOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF AN INSECT
PHEROMONE SENSORY SYSTEM IN LEPIDOPTERAN AND
HYMENOPTERAN SPECIMENS
Grazina Vaitkeviciene, Aukse Karaliene & Zuzana Skirkeviciene 75
SYSTEMS OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION
''WHITE EYE" AS A MODEL FOR TIfE STUDY OF OPTICAL
PROPERTIES OF VISUAL PIGMENTS IN INSECTS
Felix G.Gribakin 81
NATURAL AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERED VISUAL PIGMENTS
OFTIfEFLY
Kuno Kirschfeld 86
LUMINOUS COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOUR OF THE LUCIOLA
MINGRELICA FIREFLIES (COLEOPTERA, LAMPYRIDAE)
Sergej B. Landa, Vadim Yu. Bolshakov, Evgenij A. Drobchenko,
Semyon I. Peimer 9 1
CALCIUM-CONTAINING OMMOCHROME GRANULES IN OUTER
PIGMENT CELLS OF THE HONEYBEE EYE
Andrej D. Polyanovsky & Kirill Yu. Ukhanov 96
MECHANISMS OF PHOTOTRANSDUCTION IN INVERTEBRATES
Sergej A. Shukolyukov 99
SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY OF PHOTORECEPTORS AND SPECTRAL
INPUTS TO THE NEURONS OF THE FIRST OPTIC GANGLION IN
THE LOCUST (LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA)
Tamara M. Vishnevskaya, Tatyana M. Shura-Bura 106
IX
SYSTEMS OF SENSORY CONTROL OF INSECT FLIGHT
PROPRIOCEPTIVE CONTROL OF FUGHT IN INSECTS
Valerij S. Gorelkin, Yurij A. Karelin & Vladlmir L. Svldersky 115
PERIPHERAL INHIBmON IN THE SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR
INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE OF LOCUST FUGHT
Vladimir L. Svldersky 122
VISUAL CONTROL OF COMPENSATORY HEAD MOVEMENTS IN
THE SPHINX MOTH
Uwe J. Dombrowski, Jochen J. Milde and Gernot Wendler 127
BEHAVIOURS DESCRIBING SYSTEMS OF COMMUNICATION
SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF INSTINCTIVE BEHAVIOUR IN INSECTS
Peter M. Filimonov, Eugenij A. Faidysh 137
BEHAVIOURAL CHOICE OF CONSPECIFIC MATES IN CLOSELY
RELATED DRAGONFLY SPECIES
Leonld I. Frantsevltch, Pyotr A. Mokrushov 142
BEHAVIOURALFEATURESANDCOMMUMCATIONINSOCIAL
WASPS VESPULA (VESPIDAE, HYMENOPTERA)
Vladlmir P. Ivanov 149
VISUAL SEARCHING OF LOCAL FOOD SOURCES IN SOCIAL
HYMENOPTERA
Vladimir M. Kartsev 154
AUDITORY AND MECHANOSENSORY SYSTEMS OF
COMMUNlCATION
SPIDER COURTSHIP: MALE VIBRATIONS, FEMALE
RESPONSIVENESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION
Frledrich G. Barth 161
ACOUSTIC BEHAVIOR OF MOLE CRICKETS OF GRYLLOTALPA
GENUS
Vitalij S. Chukanov, Dmitrij N. Lapshin 167
AUDITORY INTERNEURONS IN THE FREELY MOVING
BUSHCRICKET TEITIGOMA CANTANS FUESS.(ORTHOPTERA,
TETTI GO NIl DAE)
Vitalij S. Chukanovand Rustem D. Zhantiev 173