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Taste Organ in the Bullhead (Teleostei)

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Authors:
  1. Klaus Reutter

    1. Anatomisches Institut der Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

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Part of the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT, volume 55/1)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-7
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 9-10

  3. Material

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    Pages 10-11

  4. Methods

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    Pages 11-13

  5. Results

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    Pages 14-51

  6. Discussion

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    Pages 51-77

  7. Summary

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    Pages 78-81

  8. References

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    Pages 82-94

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 95-100
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In fish, the sense of taste is extraordinarily highly developed and essentially more sensitive than that of mammals. This is due to chemoreception, which offers suf­ ficient possibilities for animals living in water to orient and maintain themselves suc­ cessfully in individual and social life. Therefore, at least within the vertebrates the chemical senses have developed to their highest standard in water. Chemoreception is evidently present in land-dwelling mammals and is still dependent on moist surfaces, but the optical sense, in its highest stage of development, takes priority. In contrast, in aquatic animals vision generally plays only a subordinate role (c. f. Grant & Mackie, 1974). Although the high sensitivity of the sense of taste in fish has been extensively shown in physiological experiments, corresponding detailed morphological data are lacking. Due to their similarity the taste organs of fish and mammals have been regard­ ed equally or rather the results taken from fish have been interpreted on the basis of the known morphology of the mammalian taste bud (TB). However, the high efficien­ cy of the sense of taste in fish requires a corresponding morphological basis, and mor­ phological and histochemical particularities can indeed be cited as examples: firstly, TB in fish are not only located in the mouth and throat area, but in many species also in the outer skin of the body.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Anatomisches Institut der Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Klaus Reutter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Taste Organ in the Bullhead (Teleostei)

  • Authors: Klaus Reutter

  • Series Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67008-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-08880-6Published: 01 September 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67008-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0301-5556

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-7065

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 100

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Biomedicine general

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