The chordotonal organ: A uniquely invertebrate mechanoreceptor

Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 61-105

  Field, Lawrence H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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