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The Long and Short of Hearing in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti by Menda, Gil, Nitzany, Eyal I., Shamble, Paul S., Wells, Amelia, Harrington, Laura C., Miles, Ronald N., Hoy, Ronald R.

“…Mating behavior in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes occurs mid-air and involves the exchange of auditory signals at close range (millimeters to centimeters) [1–6]. It…”
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Harmonic Convergence in the Love Songs of the Dengue Vector Mosquito by Cator, Lauren J, Arthur, Ben J, Harrington, Laura C, Hoy, Ronald R

“…The familiar buzz of flying mosquitoes is an important mating signal, with the fundamental frequency of the female's flight tone signaling her presence. In the…”
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Airborne Acoustic Perception by a Jumping Spider by Shamble, Paul S., Menda, Gil, Golden, James R., Nitzany, Eyal I., Walden, Katherine, Beatus, Tsevi, Elias, Damian O., Cohen, Itai, Miles, Ronald N., Hoy, Ronald R.

“…Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are famous for their visually driven behaviors [1]. Here, however, we present behavioral and neurophysiological evidence that…”
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Visual Perception in the Brain of a Jumping Spider by Menda, Gil, Shamble, Paul S., Nitzany, Eyal I., Golden, James R., Hoy, Ronald R.

“…Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are renowned for a behavioral repertoire that can seem more vertebrate, or even mammalian, than spider-like in character [1–3]…”
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Quantitative skills in undergraduate neuroscience education in the age of big data by Hoy, Ronald R.

“…For over a half-Century, the mathematics requirement for graduation at most undergraduate colleges and universities has been one year of calculus and a…”
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Seismic signals in a courting male jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) by Elias, Damian O, Mason, Andrew C, Maddison, Wayne P, Hoy, Ronald R

“…Visual displays in jumping spiders have long been known to be among the most elaborate animal communication behaviours. We now show that one species,…”
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Visual attention and processing in jumping spiders by Winsor, Alex M, Remage-Healey, Luke, Hoy, Ronald R, Jakob, Elizabeth M

“…Jumping spiders have extraordinary vision. Using multiple, specialized eyes, these spiders selectively gather and integrate disparate streams of information…”
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Classical conditioning through auditory stimuli in Drosophila: methods and models by Menda, Gil, Bar, Haim Y, Arthur, Ben J, Rivlin, Patricia K, Wyttenbach, Robert A, Strawderman, Robert L, Hoy, Ronald R

“…The role of sound in Drosophila melanogaster courtship, along with its perception via the antennae, is well established, as is the ability of this fly to learn…”
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Outsourced hearing in an orb-weaving spider that uses its web as an auditory sensor by Zhou, Jian, Lai, Junpeng, Menda, Gil, Stafstrom, Jay A, Miles, Carol I, Hoy, Ronald R, Miles, Ronald N

“…SignificanceThe sense of hearing in all known animals relies on possessing auditory organs that are made up of cellular tissues and constrained by body sizes…”
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Ogre-Faced, Net-Casting Spiders Use Auditory Cues to Detect Airborne Prey by Stafstrom, Jay A., Menda, Gil, Nitzany, Eyal I., Hebets, Eileen A., Hoy, Ronald R.

“…Prey capture behavior among spiders varies greatly from passive entrapment in webs to running down prey items on foot. Somewhere in the middle are the…”
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An inexpensive sub-millisecond system for walking measurements of small animals based on optical computer mouse technology by Lott, Gus K., Rosen, Merri J., Hoy, Ronald R.

“…Stimuli from a broad spectrum of sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, thermal, and chemical, can elicit walking responses in animals, reflecting…”
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Tiger moths and the threat of bats: decision-making based on the activity of a single sensory neuron by Ratcliffe, John M., Fullard, James H., Arthur, Benjamin J., Hoy, Ronald R.

“…Echolocating bats and eared moths are a model system of predator–prey interaction within an almost exclusively auditory world. Through selective pressures from…”
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Mosquito (Aedes aegypti) flight tones: frequency, harmonicity, spherical spreading, and phase relationships by Arthur, Benjamin J, Emr, Kevin S, Wyttenbach, Robert A, Hoy, Ronald R

“…Mosquito flight produces a tone as a side effect of wing movement; this tone is also a communication signal that is frequency-modulated during courtship…”
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Ronald R. Hoy by Hoy, Ronald R.

“…A Q&A with Ron Hoy, whose career has focused on the neuroethology and bioacoustics of insect songs, and whose laboratory is presently working on multimodal…”
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Attention and distraction in the modular visual system of a jumping spider by Bruce, Margaret, Daye, Daniel, Long, Skye M, Winsor, Alex M, Menda, Gil, Hoy, Ronald R, Jakob, Elizabeth M

“…Animals must selectively attend to relevant stimuli and avoid being distracted by unimportant stimuli. Jumping spiders (Salticidae) do this by coordinating…”
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Tiny spies: mosquito antennae are sensitive sensors for eavesdropping on frog calls by Pantoja-Sánchez, Hoover, Leavell, Brian C, Rendon, Bianca, de-Silva, W A Priyanka P, Singh, Richa, Zhou, Jian, Menda, Gil, Hoy, Ronald R, Miles, Ronald N, Sanscrainte, Neil D, Bernal, Ximena E

“…Most mosquito and midge species use hearing during acoustic mating behaviors. For frog-biting species, however, hearing plays an important role beyond mating…”
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Evolution. Convergent evolution of hearing by Hoy, Ronald R

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Convergent Evolution of Hearing by Hoy, Ronald R.

“…The functional and anatomical aspects of hearing in a rainforest insect are remarkably similar to those in humans. How do human ears work? The textbook…”
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The resting membrane potential of Drosophila melanogaster larval muscle depends strongly on external calcium concentration by Krans, Jacob L., Parfitt, Karen D., Gawera, Kristin D., Rivlin, Patricia K., Hoy, Ronald R.

“…The resting membrane potential (RMP) of most cells is not greatly influenced by the transmembrane calcium gradient because at rest, the membrane has very low…”
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Sound and fury: Modulation of aggressive behavior through acoustic signals by Hoy, Ronald R., Deitcher, David L.

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