The Cricket as a Model Organism

Part I. Development and Regeneration

1. History of Cricket Biology
Gerald S. Pollack, Sumihare Noji

2. Early Development and Diversity of Gryllus Appendages
Jin Liu, Aleksandar Popadić

3. Leg Formation and Regeneration
Tetsuya Bando, Yoshimasa Hamada, Sumihare Noji

4. Eye Development and Photoreception of a Hemimetabolous Insect, Gryllus bimaculatus

Hideyo Ohuchi, Tetsuya Bando, Taro Mito, Sumihare Noji

5. An Early Embryonic Diapause Stage and Developmental Plasticity in the Band-Legged Ground Cricket Dianemobius nigrofasciatus

Sakiko Shiga, Hideharu Numata

Part II. Physiology, Nervous System, and Behavior

6. Molecular Approach to the Circadian Clock Mechanism in the Cricket
Kenji Tomioka, Outa Uryu, Yuichi Kamae, Yoshiyuki Moriyama, ASM Saifullah, Taishi Yoshii

7. Hormonal Circadian Rhythm in the Wing-Polymorphic Cricket Gryllus firmus: Integrating Chronobiology, Endocrinology, and Evolution
Anthony J. Zera, Neetha Nanoth Vellichirammal, Jennifer A. Brisson

8. Plasticity in the Cricket Central Nervous System
Hadley Wilson Horch, Alexandra Pfister, Olaf Ellers, Amy S. Johnson

9. Learning and Memory
Makoto Mizunami, Yukihisa Matsumoto

10. Neurons and Networks Underlying Singing Behaviour
Stefan Schöneich, Berthold Hedwig

11. The Cricket Auditory Pathway: Neural Processing of Acoustic Signals
Gerald S. Pollack, Berthold Hedwig

12. Neuromodulators and the Control of Aggression in Crickets
Paul A. Stevenson, Jan Rillich

13. Fighting Behavior: Understanding the Mechanisms of Group-Size-Dependent Aggression
Hitoshi Aonuma

14. Cercal System-Mediated Antipredator Behaviors
Yoshichika Baba, Hiroto Ogawa

15. The Biochemical Basis of Life History Adaptation: Gryllus Studies Lead the Way
Anthony J. Zera

16. Reproductive Behavior and Physiology in the Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

Masaki Sakai, Mikihiko Kumashiro, Yukihisa Matsumoto, Masakatsu Ureshi, Takahiro Otsubo

Part III. Experimental Approaches

17. Protocols for Olfactory Conditioning Experiments
Yukihisa Matsumoto, Chihiro Sato Matsumoto, Makoto Mizunami

18. Optical Recording Methods: How to Measure Neural Activities with Calcium Imaging
Hiroto Ogawa, John P. Miller

19. Trackball Systems for Analysing Cricket Phonotaxis
Berthold Hedwig

20. Synthetic Approaches for Observing and Measuring Cricket Behaviors
Hitoshi Aonuma

21. Protocols in the Cricket
Hadley Horch, Jin Liu, Taro Mito, Aleksandar Popadić, Takahito Watanabe

Keywords: Life Sciences, Animal Models, Behavioral Sciences, Developmental Biology, Food Science