Date of Award
1979
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
Periodic movements of the olfactory organs in the spiny lobster known as antennular "flicking" temporally enhance the response of the olfactory receptors to changes in the odor environment. The temporally enhanced response onsets as a series of transient discharges phase locked with the flick. This response pattern results from superimposed increases in stimulus concentration at the receptor sites due to flicking modulated permeability of a chemical diffusion barrier surrounding the receptors, presumably created by the densely packed nature of the receptor hair tuft. It is concluded that flicking provides the lobster with a physiological mechanism to compensate for the indiscrete temporal nature of chemical stimumi.
Extent
63 p.
Recommended Citation
SCHMITT, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER, "FLICKING ENHANCES THE RESPONSE OF ANTENNULAR CHEMORECEPTORS IN THE SPINY LOBSTER, PANULIRUS ARGUS" (1979). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1970 - 1979. 710.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_2/710
Identifier
FADT13963
Comments
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.