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Mechanical polarization in the air-current sensory hair of a cricket

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We examined the mechanical anisotropy of the basement spring which underlies the directional sensitivity of the cercal filiform hair of the cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus). Spring stiffness varied with the direction of hair deflection. The anisotropic ratios were 8 for short hairs and 4 for long ones, whereas the absolute values of spring stiffness varied 100-fold with hair length.

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  1. T. Osawa

    Present address: Zoological Institute, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  2. T. Shimozawa

    Present address: Section of Sensory Information Processing, Research Institute of Applied Electricity, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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  1. Biological Institute, Faculty of General Education, Ehime University, 790, Matsuyama, Japan

    M. Kanou, T. Osawa & T. Shimozawa

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This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 63740416 from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture to MK.

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Kanou, M., Osawa, T. & Shimozawa, T. Mechanical polarization in the air-current sensory hair of a cricket. Experientia 45, 1082–1083 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01950163

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