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General Structure of Integument
Since there are well over one million kinds of arthropod cuticles, it is fortunate that we can describe them with reference to a basic plan (Fig 2.1...
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Compliance and sensitivity of a mechanoreceptor of the insect exoskeleton
1. The compliance (indentation per unit force) of the caps of proprioceptive campaniform sensilla of Group 6 of the cockroach leg has been measured in...
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Molecular Cross-Linking
The number of cross-linkages present in a polymer network influences its rigidity. The cross-links may be chemical as in the vulcanization of rubber...
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Introduction
Like most monographs this book is somewhat idiosyncratic. It is meant to attract the attention of molecular biologists to the rich variety of...
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The Structure and Musculature of the Feeding Apparatus in Longidorus and **phinema
Modifications from the basic dorylaimoid pattern in the structure of the feeding apparatus and oesophageal digestive tract in **phinema and...
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Lyriform slit sense organs
1. In lyriform organs of arachnids several innervated cuticular slits are closely arranged in parallel. The mechanical consequences of this...
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Polyanionic Glycans of Other Tissues
Polyanionic glycans are ubiquitously distributed in the animal organism, appearing not only in supporting tissues, but also in a very great variety...
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Electrical properties of the salt gland of Aegiceras
Microelectrode and current clam** techniques have been used to investigate the electrical properties of the salt gland of Aegiceras corniculatum ...
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Aerodynamic Aspects of Animal Flight
A lecture or a course of lectures on ‘Aircraft’ would put approximately equal emphasis on aerodynamic, structural and power-plant aspects; whereas...
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Molecular Interrelationships and Functions
The notion of a “spatial hierarchy” of biological organization has already been alluded to in Chap. 2. It is a paradigm (KUHN, 1970) of wide...
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The physiological mechanism of catalepsy in the stick insectCarausius morosus Br.
1. The phenomenon of catalepsy in the stick insect, C. morosus , during thanatosis (death feigning) was investigated quantitatively by applying...
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Blood pressure in the tarantula,Dugesiella hentzi
1. Heart rates in intact spiders at rest were 35/min and after 3 min exercise 77/min. Recovery to the initial rate required 1/2 hr. In cannulated...
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The Integument
The key to much of the physiology of insects is to be found in the nature of their cuticle. As was first shown by Haeckel, the cuticle is the product...
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Brief Survey of the Neuroendocrine System in Insects
This introductory chapter represents a condensed review of the components of the neuroendocrine system of insects and the effects of their...
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Hearing
Among all sense organs, the most complex transformations occurring during reception of a stimulus are those observed in the organ of hearing, found...
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Ultrastructural and Molecular Organization of Antennae
The antennae of receptor cells can consist either of microvilli and the stereocilia that result from their differentiation, or of kinocilia, the...
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Releasable Attachments
The mechanisms described in this category are designed to permit two different structural components to be quickly coupled or uncoupled—although the...
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The hydraulic interaction between prosoma and opisthosoma in Amaurobius ferox (Chelicerata, Araneae)
Experiments are described which demonstrate that blood moves from the prosoma into the opisthosoma in Amaurobius ferox when the spider is held on a...
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Adaptations
Adaptations are defined for our purpose as character combinations, metabolic processes, and developmental pathways that enable an organism to survive...
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Innervation of the receptors present at the various joints of the pereiopods and third maxilliped of Homarus gammarus (L.) and other macruran decapods (crustacea)
This paper gives a full account of the number and structure of the chordotonal organs present at all joints between the coxopodite and dactylopodite...