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What are sensilla?

What are sensilla? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of sensillum
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Short sensilla on the maxillary and labial palps, serve to recognize pheromone and touch when the male mounts the female.
Drosophila adults have 2000 chemosensory neurons that reside within segregated compartments called sensilla.
Taken together, the antennae and their sensilla are the insect's window on the external world.
And that is what he and his colleague Martin Müller have now done. Jewel beetles detect fires using receptors called sensilla.
Exceedingly sensitive organs called sensilla are concentrated in organs of hearing.
The head is analogous to a statolith, the movements of which are monitored by fields of hair sensilla located on the head, neck, and prothorax.

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