Directional selectivities of near-field filiform hair mechanoreceptors on the crayfish tailfan (Crustacea: Decapoda)

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

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-34

  Douglass, J K ^a,b   Wilkens, L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral orientation; Decapoda; Filiform hair; Mechanoreceptor; Sensory coding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031810518     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050231     Document Type: Article

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