Avoidance reflexes mediated by contact chemoreceptors on the legs of locusts

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 313-324

  Newland, P L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avoidance behaviour; Basiconic sensilla; Chemoreception; Grasshopper; Reflex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031695445     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050258     Document Type: Article

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