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FLICKING ENHANCES THE RESPONSE OF ANTENNULAR CHEMORECEPTORS IN THE SPINY LOBSTER, PANULIRUS ARGUS

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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
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
Subject(s): Caribbean spiny lobster
Spiny lobsters
Chemoreceptors
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