biotremology

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ tremology.

Noun

biotremology (uncountable)

1. (biology) The study of production, dispersion, and reception of vibrations by organisms, and their effect on behavior.

   Synonym: tremology

   Coordinate term: bioacoustics

   • 2016 March 7, Peggy S.M. Hill, Andreas Wessel, “Primer: Biotremology”, in Current Biology, volume 26, number 5, →DOI, page R189:

     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.

   • 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 3:

     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 colonies.