Publications

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Recent publications

Strauß J., Stritih-Peljhan N., Nishino, H., 2024.- Vibration receptor organs in the insect leg: Neuroanatomical diversity and functional principles.- Current Opinion in Insect Science, 61: 101153

Strauß J., 2023.- The neuronal innervation pattern of the subgenual organ complex in Peruphasma schultei (Insecta: Phasmatodea).- Arthropod Structure & Development, 74: 101277

Strauß J., 2023.- Comparative neuroanatomy of the mechanosensory subgenual organ complex in the Peruvian stick insect, Oreophoetes peruana.- Brain, Behavior and Evolution,  98 (1): 22–31

Strauß J., Stritih-Peljhan N., 2022.- Vibration detection in arthropods: Signal transfer, biomechanics and sensory adaptations.- Arthropod Structure & Development, 68: 101167.

Strauß J., Stritih-Peljhan N., Nieri R., Virant-Doberlet M., Mazzoni V., 2021.-  Communication by substrate-borne mechanical waves in insects: from basic to applied    biotremology.- Advances in Insect Physiology, 61: 189–307

Strauß J., Moritz L., Rühr P. T., 2021.- The subgenual organ complex in stick insects: Functional morphology and mechanical coupling of a complex mechanosensory organ.- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 632493

Strauß, J.  (2020) Early postembryonic development of the subgenual organ complex in the stick insect Sipyloidea sipylus. Arthrop Struc Dev 56: 100933

Lehmann, G.U.C. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2019) Adaptive strategies in life-history of bushcrickets (Orhtoptera) and cicadas (Homoptera) to parasitoid pressure on their acoustic communication systems - a case for sociality? Front Ecol Evol https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.0029

Wolfstetter, G., Dahlitz, I., Pfeifer, K., Toepfer, U., Alt, J.A., Pfeifer, D.C., Lakes-Harlan, R., Baumgartner, S., Palmer, R.H. & Holz, A. (2019) Characterization of Drosophila Nidogen/entactin reveals roles in basement membrane stability, barrier function and nervous system patterning. Development 2019 146: dev168948

Strauß, J., Stritih Peljhan, N. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (in press): Determination vibroreceptor sesitivity in insects: The influence of experimentat parameters and recording techniques. In: Biotremology - Studying Vibrational Behavior. Springer-Verlag, New York Heidelberg.

Stolz, K. (2019) Functional morphology and neuronal innervation of the prothoracic defence gland in Timema. Acta Zool 100: 6-13

Alt, J.A. & Lakes-Harlan, R., (2018) Sensing of substrate vibrations in the adult cicada Okanagana rimosa (Say). J Ins Sci 18, 16, 1-6

Stritih Peljhan, N. & Strauß, J.  (2018): The mechanical leg response to vibration stimuli in cave crickets and implications for vibrosensory organ functions. J Comp Physiol A 204: 687-702

Stolz, K., Strauß, J., Alt, J.A. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2018): Independent suboesophageal neuronal innervation of the defense gland and longitudinal muscles in the stick insect Peruphasma schultei prothorax. Arthrop Struct Dev 47: 162-172

Strauß J, Alt JA, Ekschmitt K, Schul J, Lakes-Harlan R (2017): Evolutionary diversification of the auditory organ sensilla in Neoconocephalus katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) correlates with acoustic signal diversification over phylogenetic relatedness and life history. J Evol Biol 30: 1094–1109.

Strauß, J.,  von Bredow, Ch.-R., von Bredow, Y.M., Stolz, K., Trenczek, T.E. &  Lakes-Harlan, R., (2017): Multiple identified neurons and peripheral nerves innervating the prothoracic defense glands in stick insects reveal evolutionary conserved and novel elements of a chemical defense system. Front Ecol Evol 5: 151

Strauß, J.  (2017) The scolopidial accessory organs and Nebenorgans in orthopteroid insects: Comparative neuroanatomy, mechanosensory function, and evolutionary origin. Arthrop Struc Dev 46: 765-776

Strauß, J., Lomas K., & Field L.H. (2017) The complex tibial organ of the New Zealand ground weta: sensory adaptations for vibrational signal detection. Sci Rep 7:2031

Strauß, J. & Stritih, N. (2017) Neuronal regression of internal leg vibroreceptor organs in a cave-dwelling insect (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Dolichopoda araneiformis). Brain, Beh Evol 89: 104-116

Strauß, J.,  Alt, J.A., Ekschmitt, K., Schul, J. & Lakes-Harlan,  R. (2017) Evolutionary diversification of the auditory organ sensilla in Neoconocephalus katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) correlates with acoustic signal diversification over phylogenetic relatedness and life history). J Evol Biol 30: 1094-1109

Strauß, J.  (2017) The scolopidial accessory organ in the Jerusalem cricket (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Arthrop Struct Dev 46: 171-177

Tron, N. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2017) Phonotactic flight of the parasitoid fly Emblemasoma auditrix (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). J Comp Physiol A 203: 45-56

Strauß, J. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2017) Vibrational sensitivity of the subgenual organ complex in female Sipyloidea sipylus stick insects in different experimental paradigms of stimulus direction, leg attachment, and ablation of a connective tibial sense organ. Comp Physiol Biochem A 203: 100-108

Tron, N., Stölting. H., Kampschulte, M., Martens, G., Stumpner, A.  & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2016). The auditory system of the dipteran parasitoid Emblemasoma auditrix (Sarcophagidae). J Ins Sci 16: 90, 1-9

Strauß, J. & Stritih, N. (2016): The accessory organ, a scolopidial sensory organ, in the cave cricket Troglophilus neglectus (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Rhaphidophoridae). Acta Zool 97: 187-195

Strauß J., Riesterer, A. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2016). How many mechanosensory organs in the bushcricket leg? Neuroanatomy of the scolopidial accessory organ in Tettigoniidae Insecta: Orthoptera). Arthrop Struct Dev 45: 31-41

Lakes-Harlan, R. & Holzhauer, F. (2015): Behaviour and vibration sensitivity of nymphs of the cicada Okanagana rimosa. Mitt Dtsch Ges Allg Angew Ent. 20: 329-332

Stritih, N. & Strauß, J. (2015): Tremulation signalling and sensory neurons of the cave cricket (Rhaphidophoridae Troglophilus neglectus) are consistent with ancestral vibrational communication in Ensifera. Mitt Dtsch Ges Allg Angew Ent. 20: 333-336

Stolz, K., von Bredow, Ch.-R., von Bredow, Y.M., Lakes-Harlan, R., Trenczek, T.E. & Strauß, J. (2015): Neurons of self-defence: Neuronal innervation of the exocrine defence glands in stick insects. Front Zool. 12: 29

Tron, N., Beuter, L.-K. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2015): Phonotactic behaviour and vertical sound source localization of the parasitoid fly Emblemasoma auditrix (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Ecol Entomol 40: 707-716 [highlighted as editorial choice]

Lakes-Harlan, R. & Scherberich, J. (2015): Position dependent hearing in three species of bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae, Orthoptera). Roy Soc Open Sci 2: 140473

Lakes-Harlan, R. & Lehmann, G.U.C. (2015): Parasitoid flies exploiting acoustic communication of insects - comparative aspects of independent functional adaptations. J Comp Physiol A 201: 123-132

Strauß, J. & Stumpner, A. (2015): Selective forces on origin, adaptation and reduction of tympanal ears in insects. J Comp Physiol A 201: 155-169

Lakes-Harlan, R. & deVries, Th. (2014): Experimental infection of a peridical  cicada (Magicicada cassinii) with a parasitoid (Emblemasoma auditrix) of a proto-periodic cicada (Okanagana rimosa). BMC Ecology 14: 31

Dehghan, S., Sadeghi, M., Pöppel, A., Fischer, R., Lakes-Harlan, R., Kavousi, HR., Vilcinskas, A. & Rahnamaeian, M. (2014) Differential inductions of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and chalcone synthase during wounding, salicylic acid treatment, and salinity stress in safflower, Carthamus tinctorius Biosci Reports 34: 273-282

Strauß, J. , Stritih, N. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2014): The subgenual organ complex in the cave cricket Troglophilus neglectus (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae): comparative innervation and sensory evolution. Roy Soc Open Sci 1: 140240

Kowalski, K., Lakes-Harlan, R., Lehmann, G.U.C. & Strauß, J. (2014): Acoustic defence in an insect: differences between the sexes in the tettigoniid Poecilimon ornatus (Schmidt 1850). Zoology 117: 329-336.

Lakes-Harlan, R. & Strauß, J. (2014): Functional morphology and evolutionary diversity of vibration receptors in insects. In: Studying Vibrational Communication, Animal Signals and Communication 3. Cocroft, Gogala, Hill, Wessel (eds). Springer-Verlag, New York Heidelberg. pp 277-302

Lakes-Harlan, R., deVries, Th., Stölting, H. & Stumpner, A. (2014): Useless hearing in male Emblemasoma auditrix (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) - a case of intralocus sexual conflict during evolution of a complex sense organ? PLoS ONE 9(1): e87211

Strauß, J. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2014): Evolutionary and phylogenetic origins of tympanal hearing organs in insects. In: Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication. Hedwig, B. (ed). Springer-Verlag, New York Heidelberg. 5-26 

Strauß J, Stritih N, Lakes-Harlan R (2014):  The subgenual organ complex in the cave cricket Troglophilus neglectus (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae): comparative innervation and sensory evolution. Royal Soc Open Sci 1: 140240

Lakes-Harlan R, Strauß J (2014) Functional morphology and evolutionary diversity of vibration receptors in insects. In Cocroft RB, Gogala M, Hill PSM, Wessel A (eds): Studying Vibrational Communication. Animal Signals and Communication Vol. 3. Springer, New York Heidelberg; pp. 277 – 302.

Strauß, J., Lehmann, A.W. & Lehmann, G.U.C. (2013): Sensory evolution of hearing in tettigoniids with differing communication systems. J Evol Biol. 27: 200-213.

Strauß, J. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2013): Sensory neuroanatomy of stick insects highlights the evolutionary diversity of the orthopteroid subgenual organ complex. J Comp Neurol 521: 3791-3803

Kowalski, K. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2013): The acoustic communication system in six species of armoured ground crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hetrodinae):commonalities and species-specific differences. Zool Anz 252: 204-216

Lakes-Harlan R. (2013): Lesion-induced insights in the plasticity of the insect auditory system. Front Physiol: 4: 48

Strauß, J., Lehmann GUC., Lehmann, AW. & Lakes-Harlan R. (2012): Spatial organization of tettigoniid auditory receptors: insights from neuronal tracing. J Morphol 273: 1280-1290

Lakes-Harlan R. & Lefevre, C. (2012): The femoral chordotonal organ of adult Drosophila melanogaster Meigen 1830. Mitt Dtsch Ges Allg Angew Entomol 18: 71-74

Krüger, S., Haller, B. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2011): Comparison of regeneration in the auditory system of nymphal stages and adults of Tettigonia virridissima (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Physiol Entomol 36: 235-246

Krüger, S. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2011): Contralateral deafferentation does not affect regeneration processes in the auditory system of Schistocerca gregaria (Orthoptera).  J Exp Neurosci 5: 21-29

Krüger, S., Butler, C. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2011): Morphological and physiological regeneration in the auditory system of adult Mecopoda elongata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). J Comp Physiol A 197: 181-192.

Kowalski, K. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2011): Temporal pattern of intra- and interspecific acoustic signals differ in two closely related species of Acanthoplus (Orthoptera: Tettigonidae: Hetrodinae). Zoology 114: 29-35.

Strauß, J. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2010): Neuroanatomy of the complex tibial organ in the splay-footed cricket Comicus calcharis IRISH 1986 (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Schizodactylidae. J Comp Neurol 518: 4567-4580.

Kowalski, K. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2010): Sounds, behaviour and auditory receptors of the armoured ground cricket Acanthoplus longipes. J Ins Sci 10:59.

Krüger, S. & Lakes-Harlan, R. (2010): Changes in the auditory neuropil after deafferentation in adult grasshoppers (Schistocerca gregaria). Arthrop Struct & Develop 39: 26-32.