Signalers and Receivers: Mechanisms and Evolution of Arthropod Communication
In most terrestrial and aquatic habitats, the vast majority of animals transmitting and receiving communicative signals are arthropods. This book presents the story of how this important group of animals use pheromones, sound, vibration, and light for sexual and social communication. Because of their small to minute body size most arthropods have problems sending and receiving acoustic and optical information, each of which have their own severe constraints. Because of these restraints they...
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In most terrestrial and aquatic habitats, the vast majority of animals transmitting and receiving communicative signals are arthropods. This book presents the story of how this important group of animals use pheromones, sound, vibration, and light for sexual and social communication. Because of their small to minute body size most arthropods have problems sending and receiving acoustic and optical information, each of which have their own severe constraints. Because of these restraints they have developed chemical signaling which is not similarly limited by scale. Presenting the latest theoretical and experimental findings from studies of signaling, it suggests that close parallels between arthropods and vertebrates reflect a very limited number of solutions to problems in behavior that are available within the confines of physical laws. Booknews In his exploration of communication in the Lilliputian world of the arthropod classes represented respectively by spiders, centipedes, crustaceans, and insects, Greenfield (biological sciences, U. of Kansas, NE) applies signal theory to the signals; signal characters; and chemical, mechanical, and visual channels of communication of these non-vertebrates. The final chapters explain the likely co- evolution of female receptivity advertisement and male signal receiver bias via sexual selection. Includes a glossary of terms, and a taxonomic as well as subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of Symbols1Communication in a Lilliputian World31.1Communication, Signals, and Cues61.2Scope and Coverage82Signal Theory and the Language of Communication92.1Channels, Signals, and Signal Characters92.2Peripheral and Central Filters132.3Sensory Adaptation and the Perception of Relative Intensity152.4Noise and the Signal: Noise Ratio172.5Information192.6Reliability, Repeatability, and Redundancy203Chemical Signaling and the Olfactory Channel223.1Sexual Advertisement: Organic Lures and Beacons233.2Courtship: Volatile Aromas as Reliable Indicators733.3Nascent Sociality: Conspecific Cuing, Mass Attacks, and Swarms823.4Social Behavior: Royalty and Altruists883.5Social Behavior: Discriminating Insiders from Outsiders923.6Social Behavior: A Call to Arms983.7Social Behavior: Recruitment Trails1023.8Synopsis1104Sound and Vibration and the Mechanical Channel1124.1What Is the Mechanical Channel?1144.2Signal Transmission: Friction, Tymbals, Percussion, Vibration, and Tremulation1274.3Signal Reception: Membranes and Hairs1494.4Functions and Adaptations: Sexual Advertisement, Aggression, and Social Interaction1744.5Origins and Limitations2195Bioluminescence and Reflected Light and the Visual Channel2305.1The Nature of Light2315.2Signaling Along the Visual Channel2385.3Mechanisms of Visual Reception2565.4Perceptual Influences on Optical Signal Design2726Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Signals2756.1Exploitation of Receiver Bias2766.2Coevolutionary Mechanisms2827Signal Evolution: Modification and Diversification2907.1Genetic Coupling?2907.2Aberrant Signals and Preferences: Conducive Factors and Toleration2937.3Are Complex and Multi-modal Signals Favored?294Notes297References315Glossary387Taxonomic Index393Subject Index399
\ From The CriticsIn his exploration of communication in the Lilliputian world of the arthropod classes represented respectively by spiders, centipedes, crustaceans, and insects, Greenfield (biological sciences, U. of Kansas, NE) applies signal theory to the signals; signal characters; and chemical, mechanical, and visual channels of communication of these non-vertebrates. The final chapters explain the likely co- evolution of female receptivity advertisement and male signal receiver bias via sexual selection. Includes a glossary of terms, and a taxonomic as well as subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
