Tracing and 3-dimensional representation of the primary afferents from the moth ear

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 231-241

  Zhemchuzhnikov, Mikhail K ^a,b   Pfuhl, Gerit ^a   Berg, Bente G ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Auditory pathway; Auditory receptor neurons; Confocal microscopy; Heliothine moth; Protocerebrum; Thoracic ganglia

Indexed keywords

A1 CELL; A2 CELL; ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EAR; GANGLION; MOTH; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STAINING; SUBESOPHAGEAL GANGLION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMALS; EAR; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTHS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84899945340     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: 18735495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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