Characterization of beetle Melanophila acuminata (coleoptera: buprestidae) infrared pit organs by high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry, scanning electron microscope, and fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 686-694

  Sowards, Laura A ^a,b   Schmitz, Helmut ^a,c   Tomlin, David W ^a,d   Naik, Rajesh R ^a,d   Stone, Morley O ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Anteon Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d TMCI   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared receptor; Insect cuticle; Mechanoreceptor; Melanophila acuminata; Pit organs; Thermoreceptor

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944455238     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0686:COBMAC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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