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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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| 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 |