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ANTENNULA [2 records]

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Record 1 1994-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Crustaceans
CONT

As in other crustacean groups, ... 2 groups of chemoreceptors appeared to be employed in different ways, with olfactory receptors operating in detection of water-bone stimuli and gustatory receptors functioning in the sampling of substrate-bound chemicals. Olfactory setae were typically more abundant than gustatory setae, although this was not true in all cases ... The first two stages, detection and localization, primarily involved olfactory setae, while the third, chemical characterization of the food item, was gustatory in nature ... [Source: BIOSIS database].

CONT

The ultrastructure of the so-called olfactory setae on the antennula of Daphnia magna Straus(Crustacea, Cladocera) [Source : PASCAL database].

CONT

Insects can also smell airborne chemicals, using olfactory setae, usually located on the antennae.

OBS

Plural: olfactory setae.

Key term(s)
  • olfactory setae

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Crustacés
OBS

Le terme « soie » est habituellement trouvé au pluriel. (Olfactif : relatif à l'odorat, à la perception des odeurs, appareil, organe olfactif). Terme connexe : soies sensorielles : soies qui sont des organes des sens (e.g. ouïe ou odorat), reliées au système nerveux des insectes.

Key term(s)
  • soies olfactives

Spanish

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Record 2 1977-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[An antennule is] one of a pair of the most anterior appendages of the cephalon followed by antenna.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Chez l'ostracode vivant] la tête porte deux antennes, l'antenne antérieure, ou première antenne, [est l'] organe de palpation et de locomotion, (...)

Spanish

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