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A Model of Filiform Hair Distribution on the Cricket Cercus

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 covered with between 500 to 750 filiform mechanosensory hairs. The distribution of the hairs on the cerci, as...

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Autores principales: Heys, Jeffrey J., Rajaraman, Prathish K., Gedeon, Tomas, Miller, John P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3464291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056357
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046588