Journal article
Feeling the vibes: chordotonal mechanisms in insect hearing
Current opinion in neurobiology, Vol.9(4), pp.389-393
08/1999
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)80058-0
PMID: 10448164
Abstract
To hear, insects use diverse external structures, which transform acoustic signals to mechanical ones, coupled to astonishingly uniform mechanosensory transducers, the chordotonal organs. New evidence showing that chordotonal organs and vertebrate auditory hair cells are developmentally related and that chordotonal organs and insect bristle organs are mechanistically related suggests that all these ciliated mechanoreceptors may be derived from the same ancestral molecular mechanotransduction complex. Identification of these elusive molecules will settle this issue.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Feeling the vibes: chordotonal mechanisms in insect hearing
- Creators
- Daniel F Eberl - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1324, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current opinion in neurobiology, Vol.9(4), pp.389-393
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)80058-0
- PMID
- 10448164
- ISSN
- 0959-4388
- eISSN
- 1873-6882
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/1999
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Biology
- Record Identifier
- 9984070159802771
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