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Functional Coupling of Cercal Filiform Hairs and Campaniform Sensilla in Crickets

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Functional Surfaces in Biology

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The cerci, paired appendages at the rear end of the cricket abdomen, are covered with a variety of sense organs: the mechanosensitive filiform, clavate and long bristle hairs as well as campaniform sensilla and the gustatory short bristle hairs (Gnatzy and Schmidt, 1972, 1972; Schmidt and Gnatzy 1972). In this multimodal receptor system (Murphey and Chiba 1990), the most numerous are the exclusively mechanosensitive receptor types: filiform hairs and campaniform sensilla.

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  1. Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Ralph Heußlein

  2. Johann-Friederich-Blumenbach-Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Heribert Gras

  3. Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität, Goethe-Universität, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Siesmayerstr. 70, Germany

    Werner Gnatzy

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Heußlein, R., Gras, H., Gnatzy, W. (2009). Functional Coupling of Cercal Filiform Hairs and Campaniform Sensilla in Crickets. In: Gorb, S.N. (eds) Functional Surfaces in Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6697-9_12

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