... http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Editor's choice: Fish sense the tactile features of surfaces with their fins using mechanosensory neurons with response properties similar to those of mammals. Mechanosensation Texture Touch Pectoral fin Fish Our perception...

... environmental estrogens during development and throughout the juvenile period alters sensory processing and impairs appropriate behavioral responses to injury. Behavior Ethinyl estradiol EE2 Injury Mechanosensation Squid Estrogens are steroid hormones that affect nearly every physiological...

... of Biologists Ltd 2020 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Noxious thermal and mechanical stimuli evoke strike behavior in Manduca sexta and both stimuli activate individual nociceptive sensory neurons in the body wall. Nociception Caterpillar Mechanosensation Strike...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2018 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: The lateral line may be able to contribute to sound localization in fishes through a combination of directional sensitivity and time of arrival differences at neuromasts. Fish Mechanosensation Sensory...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2018 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary:   Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits a behavioural response to vibration that is distinct from its responses to touch. Biotremology Mechanosensation Nematode Tactile Mechanical stimuli encode...

... ) 28 5 2012 5 7 2012 © 2012. 2012 Caenorhabditis elegans locomotion mechanosensation To survive in an ever-changing environment, metazoans have evolved complex neuronal networks. Neurons sense, integrate and transmit information to finally produce complex adaptive...

... ). Studies of mechanosensation using the fly . Hum. Mol. Genet. 11 , 1215 - 1218 . Kaun K. R. , Hendel T. , Gerber B. , Sokolowski M. B. ( 2007 ). Natural variation in Drosophila larval reward learning and memory due to a cGMP-dependent protein kinase . Learn. Mem. 14...

... musculature can deliver mechanical force and power nearly 1000-fold higher than it delivers when swimming in water. We find that mutations that disrupt mechanosensation, or the laser killing of specific touch receptor neurons, increase the temporal frequency of the undulating gait, revealing a novel effect...

... should focus on the integration of mechanosensation and chemosensation during navigation in T. diomedea . References Atema, J. ( 1996 ). Eddy chemotaxis and odor landscapes: exploration of nature with animal sensors. Biol. Bull. 191 , 129 -138. Audesirk, G. and Audesirk, T. ( 1980...

... chordotonal organ courtship dynamic range compression ear insect antenna hearing song Johnston's organ mechanosensation non-linearity Drosophila melanogaster © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 8 2 2002 * e-mail: [email protected] ...