Microstructure and innervation of the mystacial vibrissal follicle-sinus complex in bearded seals, Erignathus barbatus (Pinnipedia: Phocidae)

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-25

  Marshall, Christopher D ^a,c   Amin, Heidi ^a   Kovacs, Kit M ^b   Lydersen, Christian ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic mammals; Foraging; Pinnipeds; Tactile sensory systems; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CAVERNOUS SINUS; EPIDERMIS; ERIGNATHUS BARBATUS; FORAGING; GEOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INNERVATION; INTEGUMENT; MAMMAL; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; MERKEL NEURITE COMPLEX; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MYELINATION; MYSTACIA; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RING SINUS; SEAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VIBRISSA; VIBRISSA FOLLICLE SINUS COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HAIR FOLLICLE; MECHANORECEPTORS; SEALS, EARLESS; VIBRISSAE;

ERIGNATHUS; ERIGNATHUS BARBATUS; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 30344439785     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20273     Document Type: Article

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