Time/place: M/W 3:00-4:15, RH260

Instructor: Dr. Don Wilson

or by appointment

Source material: There is no text for this course.

Grading: Course grade (total 320 points) will be based on 3 exams (Exam 1 — 50 pts; Exam 2 — 120 pts; Exam 3 — 100 pts) and occasional quizzes and in-class assignments (50 pts). Exams will be short-answer and essay. Make-up exams require that I be notified of your absence prior to the originally scheduled exam and documented proof of the emergency at the time of the make-up exam.

Class attendance and participation is strongly advised. All rules regarding academic honesty will be strictly enforced. If anyone needs any kind of special accommodations due to a disability please let me know immediately.

I. Introduction August 23, Monday, 2 lectures

II. General principles August 1, Monday, 2 lectures

II. General principles (continued) September 8, Wednesday, 1 lectures

III. Communication - Mating September 15, Wednesday, 7 lectures*

IV. Communication - Kin recognition October 11, Monday, 4 lectures

IV. Finding food/Predator avoidance November 1, Wednesday, 6 lectures

V. Orientation/Navigation November 22, Monday, 4 lectures

VI. Review December 8, Wednesday

Reading list*

(on electronic reserve at the main library)

• Thar & Kuhl (2003) Bacteria are not too small for spatial sensing of chemical gradients: An experimental evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 100:5748-5753.

• Shepherd (1994) Introduction: From receptors to perceptions, Neurobiology, pp. 229-246.

• Dusenbery (1992) Introduction, Sensory Ecology, pp. 1-16.

• Gerhardt (1983) Communication and the environment, In Halliday & Slater (Eds.) Communication, pp. 82-113.

• Dusenbery (1992) Communication, Sensory Ecology, pp. 321-354.

• Ryan & Wilczynski (1988) Coevolution of sender and receiver: effect on local mate preference in cricket frogs, Science, 240:1786-1788.

• Tuttle & Ryan (1981) Bat predation and the evolution of frog vocalizations in the neotropics, Science, 214:677-678.

• Ryan (1998) Sexual selection, receiver biases, and the evolution of sex differences, Science, 281:1999-2003.

• Schneiderman et al., (1986) Trans-sexually grafted antennae alter pheromone-directed behavior in a moth, Nature, 323: 801-803.

• Kukuk (1985) Evidence for an antiaphrodisiac in the sweat bee Lasioglossum (Dialictus) zephyrum, Science, 227: 656-657.

• Watson (1986) Transmission of a female sex pheromone thwarted by males in the spider Linyphia litigiosa (Linyphiidae), Science, 233: 219-221.

• Brennan, Kaba & Keverne (1990) Olfactory recognition: A simple memory system, Science, 250:1223-1226.

• Lloyd (1981) Mimicry in the sexual signals of fireflies, Scientific American, 245: 139-145.

• Lloyd & Wing (1983) Nocturnal aerial predation of fireflies by light-seeking fireflies, Science, 222: 634-635.

• Lall et al., (1980) Ecology of colors of firefly bioluminescence, Science, 210: 560-562.

• Barlow (1990) What the brain tells the eye. Scientific American, April, 90-95.

• Barlow, Ireland & Kass (1982) Vision has a role in Limulus mating behavior. Nature, 296:65-66.

• King & West (1983) Epigenesis of cowbird song — A joint endeavor of males and females, Nature, 305:704-706.

• West & King (1988) Female visual displays affect the development of male song in the cowbird, Nature, 334:244-246.

• Sullivan et al., (2000) Good memories of bad events in infancy. Nature, 407:38-39

• Beauchamp, Yamazaki & Boyse (1985) The chemosensory recognition of genetic individuality, Scientific American, 253:86-92.

• Manning et al., (1992) Communal nesting patterns in mice implicate MHC genes in kin recognition, Nature, 360: 581-583.

• Potts et al., (1991) Mating patterns in seminatural populations of mice influenced by MHC genotype, Nature, 352: 619-621.

• Penn, D. & Potts, W. (1998) MHC-disassortative mating preferences reversed by cross fostering. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B., 265:1299-1306.

• Beecher (1990) The evolution of parent-offspring recognition in swallows, In Dewsbury (Ed.) Contemporary Issues in Comparative Psychology, pp. 360-380.

• Balcomb & McCracken (1992) Vocal recognition in Mexican free-tailed bats: do pups recognize mothers? Animal Behavior, 43:79-87.

• Barton, Purvis & Harvey (1995) Evolutionary radiation of visual and olfactory brain systems in primates, bats and insectivores, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 348: 381-392.

• Meijerink, Braks, Brack, et al., (2000) Identification of olfactory stimulants for Anopheles gambiae from human sweat samples. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 26:1367-1382

• Fox, Pitts, Robertson, Carlson & Zweibel (2001) Candidate odorant receptors from the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae and evidence of down-regulation in response to blood feeding. Proc. National Academy of Sciences, 98:14693-14697.

• Forster (1982) Vision and prey-catching strategies in jumping spiders, American Scientist, 70: 165-175.

• Mather & Roitberg (1987) A sheep in wolf’s clothing: Tephritid flies mimic spider predators, Science, 236: 308-310.

• Greene et al., (1987) A tephritid fly mimics the territorial displays of its jumping spider predators, Science, 236: 310-312.

• Simmons et al., (1979) Echolocation and pursuit of prey by bats, Science, 203: 16-21.

• Suga (1990) Biosonar and neural computation in bats, Scientific American, June: 60-68.

• Siemers & Schnitzler (2004) Echolocation signals reflect niche differentiation in five sympatric congeneric bat species. Nature, 429:657-661.

• Fenton & Fullard (1981) Moth hearing and the feeding strategies of bats, American Scientist, 69: 266-275.

• Schul et al., (2000) Listening for bats: The hearing range of the bushcricket Phaneroptera falcata for bat echolocation calls measured in the field. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 267:1711-1715.

• Rydell, Jones & Waters (1995) Echolocating bats and hearing moths: who are the winners? Oikos, 73:419-424.

• Berdoy et al. (2000) Fatal attraction in rats infected with Toxoplasma gondii. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 267:1591-1594.

• Dusenbery (1992) Classification of behaviors related to spatial goals, Sensory Ecology, pp. 355-366.

• Sukhdeo & Sukhdeo (1994) Optimal habitat selection by helminths within the host environment, Parisitology, 109: S41-S55.

• Dusenbery (1996) Information is where you find it, Biological Bulletin, 191:124-128.

• Beason & Semm (1991) Neuroethological aspects of avian orientation, In Berthold (Ed.) Orientation in Birds, pp. 106-127.

• Wehner (1984) Astronavigation in insects, Annual Review of Entomology, 29:277-298.

• Mouritsen & Frost (2002) Virtual migration in tethered flying monarch butterflies reveals their orientation mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 99:10162-10166.

• Nevitt, et al., (1994) Evidence for a peripheral olfactory memory in imprinted salmon, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 91:4288-4292.

• Nevitt, G. & Dittman, A. (1998) A new model for olfactory imprinting in salmon. Integrative Biology, 1: 215-223.