Profile features auditory host detection in parasitoid flies, highlighting multidimensional temporal tuning mechanisms for cricket localization.
ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Lauren Bitner is an author on ‘ Song recognition in Floridian Ormia ochracea reflects multidimensional temporal tuning’, published in JEB. Lauren is a Post-Baccalaureate Research Associate in the lab of Norman Lee at St. Olaf College, Northfield, USA, investigating how a parasitoid fly, Ormia ochracea, is recognizing and locating suitable host crickets through its sense of hearing.
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