Functional morphology of a double-walled multiporous olfactory sensillum: The sensillum coeloconicum of Bombyx mori (Insecta, Lepidoptera)

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-29

  Hunger, T ^a   Steinbrecht, R A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryofixation; Double walled wall pore sensillum; Olfaction; Silkmoth; Stimulus transport

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DENDRITE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SILKWORM; SMELLING;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0031890530     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-8166(98)80003-7     Document Type: Article

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