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- (plural sensilla) is an arthropod sensory organ protruding from the cuticle of exoskeleton, or sometimes lying within or beneath it. Sensilla appear as...
- The slit sensilla, also known as the slit sense organ, is a small mechanoreceptory organ or group of organs in the exoskeleton of arachnids which detects...
- sensilla are a class of mechanoreceptors found in insects, which respond to local stress and strain within the animal's cuticle. Campaniform sensilla...
- Bristle sensilla are a class of mechanoreceptors found in insects and other arthropods that respond to mechanical stimuli generated by the external world...
- The insect detects this force with sensory organs called campaniform sensilla and chordotonal organs located at the base of the halteres and uses this...
- location of this sensilla is in the maxillary palp that this is a short-range olfactory detector for the micro-environment. The olfactory sensilla on the antenna...
- to chemosensory structures in invertebrates. For example, microscopic sensilla in the form of flattened sense organs on the antennae of aphids are referred...
- has thirty sensilla that include trichoid hairs and sensilla chaetica. The trichoid hairs function as mechanoreceptors, while the sensilla chaetica or...
- Slit sensilla: Slits in the exoskeleton that detect physical deformation of the animal's exoskeleton, have proprioceptive function. Bristle sensilla: Bristle...
- invertebrates have a mechanism to determine limb load: the campaniform sensilla. These proprioceptors are active when a limb experiences resistance. A...