Investigation of the transduction mechanism of infrared detection in Melanophila acuminata: Photo-thermal-mechanical hypothesis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 381-392

  Hammer, D X ^a,b   Dave D ^a   Milner, T E ^a   Choi, B ^a   Rylander Iii, H G ^a   Welch, A J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential phase optical low coherence reflectometry; Infrared receptor; Interferometry; Melanophila acuminata; Photo thermal mechanical; Transduction mechanism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INFRARED RADIATION; NONHUMAN; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REFLECTOMETRY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FIBER OPTICS; MECHANORECEPTOR; METABOLISM; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMORECEPTOR; TIME;

BUPRESTIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FIBER OPTICS; INFRARED RAYS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMORECEPTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035999604     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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