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Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods

Including the First Comprehensive Collection of Contributions by Soviet Scientists

Birkhäuser

Part of the book series: Advances in Life Sciences (ALS)

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Table of contents (70 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
  2. Systems of Olfactory Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Morphological and Electrophysiological Characteristics of Insect Sensilla

      • Tatyana A. Belousova, Alexey Ye. Redkozubov
      Pages 3-9
    3. Conformations of American Cockroach Sex Pheromone and its Mimic

      • Maria B. Bykhovskaya, Boris S. Zhorov
      Pages 16-19
    4. Termite Trail Pheromones: Specificity and Biosynthesis

      • Sergej G. Klochkov, Dmitrij P. Zhuzhikov
      Pages 40-43
    5. Fine Structure of Antennal Contact Chemoreceptors after Cryofixation

      • Rudolf Alexander Steinbrecht, Jong-Kyoo Lee
      Pages 59-61
    6. Morphophysiological Properties of an Insect Pheromone Sensory System in Lepidopteran and Hymenopteran Specimens

      • Grazina Vaitkeviciene, Aukse Karaliene, Zuzana Skirkeviciene
      Pages 69-74
  3. Systems of Visual Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Luminous Communicative Behaviour of the Luciola Mingrelica Fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae)

      • Sergej B. Landa, Vadim Yu. Bolshakov, Evgenij A. Drobchenko, Semyon I. Peimer
      Pages 91-95

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad, USSR

    F. G. Gribakin, A. V. Popov

  • Zoologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 13, Germany

    K. Wiese

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods

  • Book Subtitle: Including the First Comprehensive Collection of Contributions by Soviet Scientists

  • Editors: F. G. Gribakin, K. Wiese, A. V. Popov

  • Series Title: Advances in Life Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6410-7

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-6412-1Published: 11 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-6410-7Published: 21 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 425

  • Number of Illustrations: 361 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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