Chemical Sensory Systems Flashcards

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Chemoreception

A

Taste (gustatory)
-water (close)
Smell
-air (distant)

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Chemoreceptors

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Uniporous
-thick walls
-gustatory role (taste)
Multiporous
-thin walled 
-olfactory role
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Pheromones

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A chemical signal produced and released externally by an individual to communicate with a conspecific organism
(Exocrine glands)

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Pheromone types

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Sex-anti-aphrodisiac
Aggression- cohesion of insects
Spacing - increased spacing of colonies
Trail-marking - orientation 
Alarm - evokes escape/aggression
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Allelochemicals

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Interspecific semiochemicals
Kairomones - benefit receiver
Allomones - genetic producer (defensive)
Synomones - benefit both (pollination)

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