Quantitative characterization of the filiform mechanosensory hair array 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 approximately 1 cm long, and is covered with 500 to 750 filiform mechanosensory hairs. The distribution of the...

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Main Authors: John P Miller, Susan Krueger, Jeffrey J Heys, Tomas Gedeon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3221685?pdf=render