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Berthold Hedwig is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and focuses research largely within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Their work primarily addresses subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The researcher's main topics include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Hemiptera Insect Studies.

Frequent publication venues for Berthold Hedwig include the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Journal of Insect Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Experimental Biology.

Recent papers authored by Berthold Hedwig illustrate a focus on cricket behavior and neurobiology:

  • Wing movements underlying sound production in calling, rivalry, and courtship songs of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus (2021), published in Journal of Insect Physiology
  • Lesions of abdominal connectives reveal a conserved organization of the calling song central pattern generator (CPG) network in different cricket species (2021), published in Journal of Comparative Physiology A
  • Modular timer networks: abdominal interneurons controlling the chirp and pulse pattern in a cricket calling song (2020), published in Journal of Comparative Physiology A
  • Does the choosiness of female crickets change as they age? (2021), published in Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Phonotaxis of male field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus, to conspecific calling song (2023), published in Animal Behaviour

Key coauthors who have collaborated frequently with Berthold Hedwig include Chu-Cheng Lin, Stephen M. Rogers, Konstantinos Kostarakos, Adam M. Bent, and Xinyang Zhang.

Best Publications

  • New insights into corollary discharges mediated by identified neural pathways.

    James F.A. Poulet;Berthold Hedwig

  • The Cellular Basis of a Corollary Discharge

    James F. A. Poulet;Berthold Hedwig;Berthold Hedwig

  • A corollary discharge maintains auditory sensitivity during sound production

    James F. A. Poulet;Berthold Hedwig

  • Imaging fictive locomotor patterns in larval Drosophila

    Stefan R. Pulver;Stefan R. Pulver;Timothy G. Bayley;Adam L. Taylor;Jimena Berni

  • Tonic signaling from O2 sensors sets neural circuit activity and behavioral state

    Karl Emanuel Busch;Patrick Laurent;Zoltan Soltesz;Robin Joseph Murphy

  • An auditory feature detection circuit for sound pattern recognition

    Stefan Schöneich;Konstantinos Kostarakos;Berthold Hedwig

  • Pulses, patterns and paths: neurobiology of acoustic behaviour in crickets

    Berthold Hedwig

  • Complex auditory behaviour emerges from simple reactive steering

    Berthold Hedwig;James F. A. Poulet

  • Control of Cricket Stridulation by a Command Neuron: Efficacy Depends on the Behavioral State

    Berthold Hedwig

  • On the role in stridulation of plurisegmental interneurons of the acridid grasshopperOmocestus viridulus L.

    B. Hedwig

  • Calling song recognition in female crickets: temporal tuning of identified brain neurons matches behavior.

    Konstantinos Kostarakos;Berthold Hedwig

  • Mechanisms underlying phonotactic steering in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus revealed with a fast trackball system

    B. Hedwig;J. F. A. Poulet

  • Substrate-Borne Vibratory Communication during Courtship in Drosophila melanogaster

    Caroline C.G. Fabre;Berthold Hedwig;Graham Conduit;Peter A. Lawrence

  • Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication

    Berthold Hedwig

  • Auditory orientation in crickets: Pattern recognition controls reactive steering

    James F. A. Poulet;Berthold Hedwig

  • NEUROLAB, a comprehensive program for the analysis of neurophysiological and behavioural data.

    B. Hedwig;M. Knepper

  • Processing of species-specific auditory patterns in the cricket brain by ascending, local, and descending neurons during standing and walking

    Maja Zorović;Berthold Hedwig

  • Evolution of a Communication System by Sensory Exploitation of Startle Behavior

    Hannah M. ter Hofstede;Stefan Schöneich;Stefan Schöneich;Tony Robillard;Berthold Hedwig

  • Contralateral inhibition as a sensory bias: the neural basis for a female preference in a synchronously calling bushcricket, Mecopoda elongata.

    Heiner Römer;Berthold Hedwig;Swidbert R. Ott

  • Patterns of synaptic input to identified flight motoneurons in the locust

    B. Hedwig;K. G. Pearson

Frequent Co-Authors

James F.A. Poulet
James F.A. Poulet Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Manfred Kössl
Manfred Kössl Goethe University Frankfurt
Keir G. Pearson
Keir G. Pearson University of Alberta

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