Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Responsive to the vibrations or tones of sound: applied to certain organs or parts of insects and spiders.
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- adjective Describing the
stretch receptors inarthropods that detect the position of bodysegments orappendages
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Examples
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More specifically, loss of nocte changed the structure and function of major fly sensory organs called chordotonal organs, and had a dramatic influence on temperature synchronization of behavioral activity.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The name comes from the fact that an atonal mutation will disrupt the development of chordotonal organs.
Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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It's a proneural gene, which means it activates some part of the embryonic development of the nervous system — in this case, chordotonal organs, cell structures designed to pick up vibrations (think eardrums and the like).
Intervallic cell Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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The name comes from the fact that an atonal mutation will disrupt the development of chordotonal organs.
Intervallic cell Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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It's a proneural gene, which means it activates some part of the embryonic development of the nervous system — in this case, chordotonal organs, cell structures designed to pick up vibrations (think eardrums and the like).
Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Further, other mutants that interfered with the function of the chordotonal organs also disrupted temperature synchronization.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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This established the chordotonal organs as key circadian temperature receptors.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The name comes from the fact that an atonal mutation will disrupt the development of chordotonal organs.
Soho the Dog 2009
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The atonal gene was first isolated in fruit flies this case, chordotonal organs, cell structures designed to pick up vibrations (think eardrums and the like).
Soho the Dog 2009
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Just looking at the nocte DNA sequence, no one would have predicted a function for this gene or the chordotonal organs in temperature synchronization ".
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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