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FLICKING ENHANCES THE RESPONSE OF ANTENNULAR CHEMORECEPTORS IN THE SPINY LOBSTER, PANULIRUS ARGUS
- Date Issued:
- 1979
- Summary:
- Periodic movements of the olfactory organs in the spiny lobster known as antennular "flicking" temporally enhance the response of the olfactory receptors to changes in the odor environment. The temporally enhanced response onsets as a series of transient discharges phase locked with the flick. This response pattern results from superimposed increases in stimulus concentration at the receptor sites due to flicking modulated permeability of a chemical diffusion barrier surrounding the receptors, presumably created by the densely packed nature of the receptor hair tuft. It is concluded that flicking provides the lobster with a physiological mechanism to compensate for the indiscrete temporal nature of chemical stimumi.
Title: | FLICKING ENHANCES THE RESPONSE OF ANTENNULAR CHEMORECEPTORS IN THE SPINY LOBSTER, PANULIRUS ARGUS. |
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Name(s): |
SCHMITT, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Department of Biological Sciences |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1979 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 63 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | Periodic movements of the olfactory organs in the spiny lobster known as antennular "flicking" temporally enhance the response of the olfactory receptors to changes in the odor environment. The temporally enhanced response onsets as a series of transient discharges phase locked with the flick. This response pattern results from superimposed increases in stimulus concentration at the receptor sites due to flicking modulated permeability of a chemical diffusion barrier surrounding the receptors, presumably created by the densely packed nature of the receptor hair tuft. It is concluded that flicking provides the lobster with a physiological mechanism to compensate for the indiscrete temporal nature of chemical stimumi. | |
Identifier: | 13963 (digitool), FADT13963 (IID), fau:10786 (fedora) | |
Note(s): |
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science |
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Subject(s): |
Caribbean spiny lobster Spiny lobsters Chemoreceptors |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |