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Hair Bundles of a Jawless Vertebrate Employ Tetrapod-Like Tuned Mechanical Amplification

Leitch, Katherine J

<p>In the hearing and balance organs of tetrapod vertebrates, mechanical signals are transduced by an elegant organelle called the hair bundle. Deflections of this structure apply forces to mechanically gated ion channels. Hair bundles are not passive receivers of stimuli, but are instead active …

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