Sensing the underground - ultrastructure and function of sensory organs in root-feeding Melolontha melolontha (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) larvae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Eilers, Elisabeth J ^a,b   Talarico, Giovanni ^b   Hansson, Bill S ^b   Hilker, Monika ^a   Reinecke, Andreas ^b,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE; AMINE; ESTER; KETONE; TERPENE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; COLEOPTERA; ENANTIOMER; IMAGO; LARVAL STAGE; MELOLONTHA MELOLONTHA; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSE ORGAN; SENSILLUM; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; LARVA; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PLANT ROOTS; SENSILLA; TASTE PERCEPTION;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; MELOLONTHA MELOLONTHA; SCARABAEIDAE; SCARABAEINAE;

EID: 84864352473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041357     Document Type: Article

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