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The antennal feathered hairs in the crayfish: a non-innervated stimulus transmitting system

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Mechanical stimulation of feathered hairs on the crayfish antenna elicits spike activity in nerve bundles running in the flagellum. Electron microscopical studies showed, however, that these hairs are not innervated. Instead these hairs can be coupled mechanically with nearby innervated hairs of a different type, which perform the sensory transduction.

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LDV :

laser-Doppler-vibrometry

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  1. AK Sinnesphysiologie, Zoologisches Institut der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Siesmayerstrasse 70, D-6000, Frankfurt am Main 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    Manfred Bender & Werner Gnatzy

  2. Fakultät für Biologie der Universität Konstanz, D-7750, Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany

    Jürgen Tautz

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Bender, M., Gnatzy, W. & Tautz, J. The antennal feathered hairs in the crayfish: a non-innervated stimulus transmitting system. J. Comp. Physiol. 154, 45–47 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00605388

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