Neural circuit in the cricket brain detects the rhythm of the right mating call

Friday, September 11, 2015 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have identified an ingeniously elegant brain circuit consisting of just five nerve cells that allows female crickets to automatically identify the chirps of males from the same species through the rhythmic pulses hidden within the mating call.

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