Sensilla that line the upper edge of the lip in the leech Hirudo medicinalis and that contain chemoreceptors required for feeding were examined in the scanning and transmission electron microscopes. The sensilla include two size-classes of ciliated button-like mounds--one about 35 microns in diamete
Metabolic changes in the medical leech Hirudo medicinalis following feeding
โ Scribed by Zebe, Ernst; Roters, Franz-Josef; Kaiping, Barbara
- Book ID
- 122753061
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 786 KB
- Volume
- 84
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0300-9629
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