Statolith hair movements and the regulation of tonic gravity reflexes in the lobster, Homarus americanus.
1. The irregularity of the statolith of the lobster, Homarus americanus, probably causes a large and haphazard variation in the response of the individual statocyst receptors to body rotation. 2. Lobster gravity reflexes are regulated by the summed responses of the statocyst receptors; this probably compensates for the haphazard variation in the sensory input.
Department of Biology, Occidental College, Eagle Rock, CA 90041.
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D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005123:Eye / Q000294:innervation; D005260:Female; D006112:Gravitation; D006198:Hair Cells, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation; D008121:Nephropidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*