Evolution of sound and balance perception: Innovations that aggregate single hair cells into the ear and transform a gravistatic sensor into the organ of corti

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1760-1774

  Duncan, Jeremy S ^a   Fritzsch, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Hair cell; Mechanosensor; Mechanosensory cell first hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROGENIN 1; NEUROTROPHIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINDING KINETICS; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CORTI ORGAN; ECTODERM; ELECTRORECEPTOR; EVOLUTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INNER EAR; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCULUS; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; SPIRAL GANGLION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EAR; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; ORGAN OF CORTI; POSTURAL BALANCE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SOUND;

BILATERIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84867900546     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22573     Document Type: Article

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