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Each aesthetasc hair of the lateral antennule of the California spiny lobsterPanulirus interruptus (Randall) is shown by light and scanning electron microscopy to be innervated by a basally situated cluster of sensory neurons encased in a glial sheath which isolates each cluster from those of other hairs (Figs. 1, 3, 4). The dendrites of these neurons penetrate the aesthetasc hairs and their axons extend to the central nervous system. Extracellular recordings with suction electrodes from the axons of single neuronal clusters were used to determine the responsiveness of individual hairs to a spectrum of amino acids, amines, amides, carbohydrates, carboxylic acids, nucleotides, and a tripeptide (Tables 1, 2, Figs. 6, 8). Randomly selected hairs from the antennules of juvenile, and male and female adult lobsters were shown to be broadly sensitive to a variety of stimuli and are homogeneous in their breadth of responsiveness (Figs. 5, 7). Cluster analysis does not reveal distinct chemoreceptive hair types based on their response spectra, suggesting that the receptor populations of single hairs are uniformly competent to respond to diverse chemical stimuli (Figs. 6, 8). Further, the sensitivity profile of aesthetascs to these stimuli correlates well with behavioral responses ofPanulirus interruptus to these same stimuli (Tables 1, 2).
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Spencer, M. The innervation and chemical sensitivity of single aesthetasc hairs. J. Comp. Physiol. 158, 59–68 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00614520
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