Quantitative Characterization of the Filiform Mechanosensory Hair Array on the Cricket Cercus

BACKGROUND: Crickets and other orthopteran insects sense air currents with a pair of abdominal appendages resembling antennae, called cerci. Each cercus in the common house cricket Acheta domesticus is approximately 1 cm long, and is covered with 500 to 750 filiform mechanosensory hairs. The distrib...

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Autores principales: Miller, John P., Krueger, Susan, Heys, Jeffrey J., Gedeon, Tomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22132155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027873

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22132155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027873

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