Opposing roles for Bmp signalling during the development of electrosensory lateral line organs [PDF]
eLifeThe lateral line system enables fishes and aquatic-stage amphibians to detect local water movement via mechanosensory hair cells in neuromasts, and many species to detect weak electric fields via electroreceptors (modified hair cells) in ampullary organs.
Alexander S Campbell +7 more
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Lateral line morphology, sensory perception and collective behaviour in African cichlid fish
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 The lateral line system of fishes provides cues for collective behaviour, such as shoaling, but it remains unclear how anatomical lateral line variation leads to behavioural differences among species.
Elliott Scott +6 more
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Atoh1 is required for the formation of lateral line electroreceptors and hair cells, whereas FoxG1 represses an electrosensory fate [PDF]
eLifeIn electroreceptive jawed fishes and amphibians, individual lateral line placodes form lines of neuromasts on the head containing mechanosensory hair cells, flanked by fields of ampullary organs containing electroreceptors—modified hair cells that ...
Martin Minařík +7 more
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A Highly Sensitive Deep-Sea Hydrodynamic Pressure Sensor Inspired by Fish Lateral Line [PDF]
BiomimeticsHydrodynamic pressure sensors offer an auxiliary approach for ocean exploration by unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). However, existing hydrodynamic pressure sensors often lack the ability to monitor subtle hydrodynamic stimuli in deep-sea environments.
Xiaohe Hu +6 more
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Sensing in the dark: Constructive evolution of the lateral line system in blind populations of Astyanax mexicanus [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionCave‐adapted animals evolve a suite of regressive and constructive traits that allow survival in the dark. Most studies aiming at understanding cave animal evolution have focused on the genetics and environmental underpinnings of regressive traits, with ...
Roberto Rodríguez‐Morales
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Micro-Machined Flow Sensors Mimicking Lateral Line Canal Neuromasts
Micromachines, 2015 Fish sense water motions with their lateral line. The lateral line is a sensory system that contains up to several thousand mechanoreceptors, called neuromasts. Neuromasts occur freestanding on the skin and in subepidermal canals.
Hendrik Herzog +5 more
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Pattern formation in the lateral line of zebrafish
Mechanisms of Development, 2001 The lateral line of fish and amphibians is a sensory system that comprises a number of individual sense organs, the neuromasts, arranged in a defined pattern on the surface of the body. A conspicuous part of the system is a line of organs that extends along each flank (and which gave the system its name).
Bernard Thisse +2 more
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Regionalized Protein Localization Domains in the Zebrafish Hair Cell Kinocilium
Journal of Developmental Biology, 2023 Sensory hair cells are the receptors for auditory, vestibular, and lateral line sensory organs in vertebrates. These cells are distinguished by “hair”-like projections from their apical surface collectively known as the hair bundle.
Timothy Erickson +4 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 The sensory organs of the inner ear contain resident populations of macrophages, which are recruited to sites of cellular injury. Such macrophages are known to phagocytose the debris of dying cells but the full role of macrophages in otic pathology is ...
Mark E. Warchol +4 more
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New information on Brindabellaspis stensioi Young, 1980, highlights morphological disparity in Early Devonian placoderms [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Acid-prepared specimens of the placoderm Brindabellaspis stensioi (Early Devonian of New South Wales, Australia) revealed placoderm endocranial anatomy in unprecedented detail.
Benedict King +2 more
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