Electrophysiological characterization of the multipolar thermoreceptors in the "fire-beetle" Merimna atrata and comparison with the infrared sensilla of Melanophila acuminata (both Coleoptera, Buprestidae)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 189, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 715-722

  Schmitz, H ^a   Trenner, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest fire; Infrared receptor; Jewel beetles pyrophilous insects thermoreceptor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; INFRARED RADIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TEMPERATURE; THERMORECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; INFRARED RAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SENSE ORGANS; TEMPERATURE; THERMORECEPTORS;

EID: 0142059927     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-003-0447-6     Document Type: Article

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