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THE ability of insects to taste salts with sense organs on their legs and mouthparts is well documented. Studies of taste hairs on the tarsi and labella of the black blowfly Phormia regina and the bluebottle Calliphora erythrocephala have shown that these contain several sensory cells, one of which is a ‘salt’ or ‘type I’ primary receptor neurone responding positively to the concentration of monovalent cations1–6. I report here some of the receptor characteristics of monovalent cation sensitive neurones found in hair sensilla on the egg-laying apparatus of the sheep blowfly.
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RICE, M. Blowfly ovipositor receptor neurone sensitive to monovalent cation concentration. Nature 268, 747–749 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/268747a0
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