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An Electrophysiological Approach to the Study of Chemical Sensory Reception in Certain Insects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John A. Chapman  and
Roderick Craig
John A. Chapman
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Montana State University and Division of Entomology, and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley
Roderick Craig
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Montana State University and Division of Entomology, and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley
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In the past twenty years or so many investigators have studied amplified electrical activity from nerve fibers supplving sensory receptors in many animals, including insects (see 2, 5, 8, 16, 19). With this technique much information has been secured concerning the characreristics of mechanical receptors (touch, pressure, sound, etc.) and photoreceptors. To a much lesser extent temperature, pain, taste and other chemical receptor activity in vertebrates has been studied although no electrical potentials appear to have been recorded from individual olfactory nerve fibers in any organism.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 85 , Issue 5 , May 1953 , pp. 182 - 189
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1953

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