Evolution of auditory organs, with special reference to insect chordotonal organs.

• Nishino Hiroshi

  北海道大学電子科学研究所

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 昆虫の聴覚器官
• 昆虫の聴覚器官--その進化
• コンチュウ ノ チョウカク キカン ソノ シンカ
• ―その進化―

Abstract

In this review, I aim to introduce recent progress towards understanding the evolution of auditory organs in animals. Despite of 600 million years of separation of protostomia and deuterostomia, key genes needed for the development, the nature of mechanoreceptive channels, and the amplification mechanism in sensory neurons are shared between vertebrate ears and insect ears. These findings argue against the previously prevailing view that vertebrate and invertebrate ears have separate evolutionary origins. Anatomical, developmental, and molecular genetic studies consistently show that the auditory organs in insects are derived from unspecialized, low-vibration-sensitive chordotonal organs. Thus, any chordotonal organs in body appendages could evolve into auditory organs. Convergent evolution of auditory organs, therefore, is based on the specialization of the sound transmission apparatus (e.g. tympanum, tracheal expansion) rather than on the sensory neurons.

Journal

• Hikaku seiri seikagaku(Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry)

  Hikaku seiri seikagaku(Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry) 23 (2), 26-37, 2006

  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Keywords

• audition
• proprioceptors
• ear
• tettigoniid
• convergent evolution
• nervous system

Details

• CRID: 1390001204668351488
• NII Article ID: 10025858599
• NII Book ID: AN10391932
• DOI: 10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.23.26
• COI: 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD28XlsFegu7w%3D
• ISSN: 18819346
• ISSN: 09163786
• NDL BIB ID: 7925156
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/7925156
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I7925156
• Text Lang: ja
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