bristletail
noun
bris·tle·tail
ˈbri-səl-ˌtāl 
: any of various primitive wingless insects (order Thysanura synonym Archaeognatha) with three slender caudal bristles
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Insects use many other classes of ion channel olfactory receptors, including ones that are much more complex and much more specific than those of the jumping bristletail.
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Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired, 27 June 2021
The Rockefeller team turned to receptor interactions in the jumping bristletail, an ancestral ground-dwelling insect that has a particularly simple olfactory receptor system.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired, 27 June 2021
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Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired, 27 June 2021
The Rockefeller team turned to receptor interactions in the jumping bristletail, an ancestral ground-dwelling insect that has a particularly simple olfactory receptor system.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired, 27 June 2021
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“Bristletail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bristletail. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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