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THE contact chemoreceptors of blowfly tarsi have been the subject of much experimental work since the existence of a tarsal taste sense in the Calliphoridae was discovered by Minnich1; the literature has been reviewed elsewhere2,3. The receptors concerned have not been positively identified and no details of the structure of the receptor surface have been reported.
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Minnich, D. E., Biol. Bull., 51, 166 (1926).
Dethier, V. G., and Chadwick, L. E., Physiol. Rev., 28, 220 (1948).
Frings, H., and Frings, M., Amer. Midl. Nat., 41, 602 (1949).
Tinbergen, L., Arch. néerl. Zool., 4, 81 (1939).
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LEWIS, C. Contact Chemoreceptors of Blowfly Tarsi. Nature 173, 130–131 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173130b0
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