Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Freezing and Tonic immobility: Their Definitions and Naming.- Chapter 2: Historical Review on Thanatosis with Special Reference to the Work of Fritz Steiniger.- Chapter 3: The function of Death-Feigning: Review and Prospectus.- Chapter 4: Environmental, Physiological and Genetic Effects on Tonic Immobility in Beetles.- Chapter 5: Ultrasound-Induced Freezing Response in Moths.- Chapter 6: Vibration-Induced Immobility in Coleopteran Insects.- Chapter 7: Tonic Immobility in a Cricket: Behavioral Characteristics, Neural Substrate and Functional Significance.- Chapter 8: Tonic Immobility in a Cricket: Neuronal Underpinnings of Global Motor Inhibition.- Chapter 9: Catalepsy and Twig Mimesis in Insects and Its Neural Control.- Chapter 10: Descending Neuron for Freezing Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.- Chapter 11: Immobility Behaviors in Fish: A Comparison with Other Vertebrates.

About the Author

​Masaki Sakai
Emeritus Professor of Okayama University