THE paper deals with the modern theory 2 of the mechanism by which plants are enabled to regulate their line of growth by means of the force of gravity. When an upright flower-stalk is forcibly ...

Statolith ageing techniques provide a useful tool in the study of age, growth, and population structure of several marine organisms. Previous investigations on scyphozoan statoliths demonstrated ...

All life forms are endowed with the ability to sense gravity. However, the mechanism is not well-understood in acoels, a group of marine flatworms that represent a primitive invertebrate (without ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The behaviour of single receptors in the statocyst of the lobster Homarus americanus was studied by moving single receptor hairs or the ...

Statoliths are involved in helping the squid keep their balance. They have a thick deposit, called the “hatching check,”marking the day the squid was born. After that, there is one growth increment ...

All living organisms are equipped with sensory organs to detect changes in their surrounding environment. It may not immediately strike us as obvious but, similar to how we can sense heat, cold, light ...