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Taste Organ in the Bullhead (Teleostei)
Klaus Reutter
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Paperback. Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology. Num Pages: 100 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBGR; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 5. Weight in Grams: 159.
In fish, the sense of taste is extraordinarily highly developed and essentially more sensitive than that of mammals. This is due to chemoreception, which offers suf ficient possibilities for animals living in water to orient and maintain themselves suc cessfully in individual and social life. Therefore, at least within the vertebrates the chemical senses have developed to their highest standard in water. Chemoreception is evidently present in land-dwelling mammals and is still dependent on moist surfaces, but the optical sense, in its highest stage of development, takes priority. In contrast, in aquatic animals vision generally plays only a subordinate role ... Read more
In fish, the sense of taste is extraordinarily highly developed and essentially more sensitive than that of mammals. This is due to chemoreception, which offers suf ficient possibilities for animals living in water to orient and maintain themselves suc cessfully in individual and social life. Therefore, at least within the vertebrates the chemical senses have developed to their highest standard in water. Chemoreception is evidently present in land-dwelling mammals and is still dependent on moist surfaces, but the optical sense, in its highest stage of development, takes priority. In contrast, in aquatic animals vision generally plays only a subordinate role ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540088806
SKU
V9783540088806
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