Mechanoreception: Touch, Sensillar Structure

Encyclopedia of Insects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 610-611

  French, Andrew S ^a   Torkkeli, Päivi H ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374144-8.00169-7     Document Type: Chapter

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