A new type of infrared organ in the Australian "fire-beetle" Merimna atrata (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 542-545

  Schmitz, H ^a   Schmitz, A ^a   Bleckmann, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DENDRITE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; INFRARED RADIATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BEETLES; DENDRITES; SENSE ORGANS; SNAKES;

EID: 0034530681     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050775     Document Type: Article

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