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- uncountablebiologyThe study of production, dispersion, and reception of vibrations by organisms, and their effect on behavior.
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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 between media.
2016 March 7, Peggy S.M. Hill, Andreas Wessel, “Primer: Biotremology”, in Current Biology, volume 26, number 5, →DOI, page R189These 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 colonies.
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, volume 13, →DOI, article 10202, page 3Synonyms: tremology
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nounThe study of production, dispersion, and reception of vibrations by organisms, and their effect on behavior.
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