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Fine structure of the gnathosoma of Archegozetes longisetus Aoki (Acari: Oribatida, Trhypochthoniidae) by Gerd Alberti; Michael Heethoff; Roy A. Norton; Sebastian Schmelzle; Anna Seniczak; Stanisław Seniczak is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract Oribatida are one of the main groups of Acari comprising mostly important decomposers in soils. Most species are particle feeders, an exceptional mode of nutrition in Arachnida. Hence, their feeding organs, the gnathosoma, are of special functional interest. We studied nearly all components using scanning and transmission electron microscopies as well as reconstructions based on synchrotron X‐ray microtomography from the model oribatid __Archegozetes longisetosus__. Besides cuticular structures, we describe the full set of muscles and confirm the presence of a trochanter remnant at the base of the chelicera. Setae on the prodorsum and the anterior and posterior infracapitular setae are mechanoreceptors innervated by two dendrites ending with tubular bodies. Dendrites of adoral setae, anterior setae of the chelicerae, and the supracoxal setae show neither obvious tubular bodies nor wall or terminal pores. Thus their function remains obscure. For the first time, a muscular proprioreceptor has been found in Arachnida. It likely monitors the actions of muscles moving the movable digit of the chelicera. Glandular structures within and associated with the gnathosoma are descr

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Author

Gerd Alberti; Michael Heethoff; Roy A. Norton; Sebastian Schmelzle; Anna Seniczak; Stanisław Seniczak

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0362-2525)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)