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  • Title: The effect of temperature on flight initiation in the cockroach Periplaneta americana.
    Author: Diekman LJ, Ritzmann RE.
    Journal: J Neurobiol; 1987 Nov; 18(6):487-96. PubMed ID: 3694190.
    Abstract:
    The effect of temperature during development of the flight system of the American cockroach was tested. Animals were raised at three different temperatures from egg cases to adulthood then various parameters of flight were tested. Animals raised at cooler temperatures were found to require significantly stronger wind puffs to initiate flight than did animals raised in warmer temperatures. Some animals were raised at one temperature during embryonic development (i.e. while the animals were still in egg cases) and then switched to a different temperature for nymphal development. In these cases only the temperature experienced during embryonic development had a significant permanent effect on flight. Parameters associated with pattern generation such as interburst interval were not affected by temperature during either developmental period.
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