biotremology
biotremology noun: the study of production, dispersion, and reception of vibrations by organisms, and their effect on behavior.
Noun
biotremology (uncountable)
- The study of production, dispersion, and reception of vibrations by organisms, and their effect on behavior.
- More precisely biotremology studies the communication by surface-borne vibrations, detected by specialized perception organs (e.g. slit-sense organs in spiders, subgenual organs in insects, hair receptors, Pacinian and Herbst corpuscles in vertebrates) measuring the oscillations at a boundary...2016 March 7, Peggy S.M. Hill, Andreas Wessel, “Primer: Biotremology”, in Current Biology, volume 26, number 5, →DOI, page R189
- These exceptional features are further demonstrated through a second discrimination analysis of Varroa gait and that of two other invertebrate species (woodlouse and carabid beetle). […] This research provides a significant step forward in Varroa biotremology as well as remote mite detection in...2023 June 23, Harriet Hall, Martin Bencsik, Michael Newton, “Automated, non-invasive Varroa mite detection by vibrational measurements of gait combined with machine learning”, in Scientific Reports...
- Synonyms:
- tremology
Synonyms of biotremology
Origin of biotremology
From bio- + tremology.
Questions about biotremology
- What does biotremology mean?
- Biotremology means the study of production, dispersion, and reception of vibrations by organisms, and their effect on behavior.
- What part of speech is biotremology?
- Biotremology is a noun.
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