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Single-pore sensilla of damselfly-larvae: representatives of phylogenetically old contact chemoreceptors?

The four single-pore sensilla on the maxillary palp of Agrion and Ischnura possess two bipolar sensory cells for A-sensilla and five for B-sensilla. Distally, their dendrites are enclosed by a dendritic sheath and a pore tube. The dendritic tips have access to the outside via the opening of the pore tube. The inner dendritic segments join the receptor cell bodies laterally. The receptor cells of each sensillum are enveloped by three sheath cells and three receptor lymph cavities. Receptor lymph cavity 1 and 3 are connected with the outside by the pore tube and a minute canal system in the cuticle, respectively. All three sheath cells show microvilluslike processes of the apical membrane. Moreover, all sheath cells contain two centrioles in tandem arrangement. The structure of the single-pore sensilla is compared with that of similar sensilla of other arthropods. Functional and phylogenetic aspects are discussed.

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The chemoreceptor surface of the taste disc in the frog, Rana esculenta. An ultrastructural study with lanthanum nitrate.

The distribution of lanthanum on the taste disc of the frog, Rana esculenta, after en bloc staining of the tongue with lanthanum nitrate was studied at the ultrastructural level by means of scanning electron microscopy (in the secondary electron mode or in the back scattered electron mode), energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis, transmission electron microscopy and electron spectroscopic imaging. It was consistently found that lanthanum distribution on the surface of the taste disc is not homogeneous and that the surface of putative receptor cells is in contact with strongly lanthanum-positive material. Calcium co-localizes with lanthanum at that level. These results suggest that different microenvironments exist at the surface of the taste disc and that this could be relevant to the receptor function.

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