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Research on insect hearing and acoustic communication has made enormous progress in the twentieth century. Following the first descriptions of auditory organs behavioural studies pointed to the importance of insect hearing for intraspecific acoustic communication, predator avoidance and prey detection. Analysing the neural mechanisms underlying auditory processing and the motor activity for acoustic signalling in a variety of species has provided us with a deep functional understanding of this insect behaviour. As questions of central biological importance are exemplified in Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication these will drive the current and future research.
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Hedwig, B. (2014). Introduction. In: Hedwig, B. (eds) Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication. Animal Signals and Communication, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40462-7_1
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