Sound production in the cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa: evidence for communication by hissing

@article{Nelson1980SoundPI,  title={Sound production in the cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa: evidence for communication by hissing},  author={Margaret C. Nelson and Jean M. Fraser},  journal={Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology},  year={1980},  volume={6},  pages={305-314},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9637568}}
Evidence supports the hypothesis that the giant Madagascar cockroach G. portentosa has evolved a system of communication in which hisses serve as auditory social signals.

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Sound production in the cockroach,Gromphadorhina portentosa: The sound-producing apparatus

The anatomy and innervation of serially homologous respiratory and sound-producing spiracles were compared in order to determine the evolutionary steps by which a new behavior has developed, consistent with conservation of motor innervation and of central pattern generators during evolution.

Sound Production and Its Evolutionary Significance in the Blattaria

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