The physics and physiology of mechanoreception

Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 287-293

  Dehnhardt, Guido ^a   Mauck, Björn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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