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Four types of tarsal chemosensory hairs proposed by Grabowski and Dethier (1954) in the blowfly,Phormia regina, were reclassified into the following six types:A-,B 1-,B 2-,B 3-,C- andD-type, based on the electrophysiological results. As for the labellar hairs, the results obtained by Wilczek (1967) agreed well with those in this work. The concentration-response curves of sugar receptors inB 2-, andD-type of tarsal hairs and all types of labellar hairs for sugar stimulation were compared in relation to the regression of the acceptance threshold in the proboscis extention response of the blowflies starved for twenty four hours. The initial step of this response could be considered to be triggered mainly by about twelve impulses of every sugar receptor unD-type hairs during initial 0.1 sec after stimulus.
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Shiraishi, A., Tanabe, Y. The proboscis extention response and tarsal and labellar chemosensory hairs in the blowfly. J. Comp. Physiol. 92, 161–179 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00694504
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