These cells are housed together in specialized structures such as the taste buds of vertebrates and the chemosensory sensilla of invertebrates. The compartmentalized primary sensory cells often ...

A newly published study in the Journal of Neurophysiology reveals how blow flies (Calliphora vicina)—despite their minimal ...

How do insects perceive mechanical stress? This is a question of interest in many different fields, including comparative ...

With scanning electron microscopy and 3-dimensional microscopy, we found that the antennae of EGW adults have 6 kinds of sensilla, namely, sensory pore sensilla, chaetica sensilla, multiporous plate ...

borellii Giglio-Tos, S. abbreviatus Scudder, and the native mole cricket, Neocurtilla hexadactyla Perty, by scanning and transmission electron micrography. The most abundant sensilla were antennal ...

Blame it on a prehistoric armored fish. While the outer layer of our teeth is coated in hard enamel, it’s the inner layer, ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the ...

A newly published study in the Journal of Neurophysiology reveals how blow flies (Calliphora vicina)—despite their minimal body ...

The sensor, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, is inspired by an organ called the slit sensilla. These parallel slits, located near the joints of a spider's legs, can detect minute vibrations.

An adult female Cupiennius salei, the Central American wandering spider, has more than 3,000 slit sensilla, or strain sensors, on its body. Located mostly on the legs and near the leg joints, the ...