Hearing mechanics: a fly in your ear
- PMID: 18812084
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.069
Hearing mechanics: a fly in your ear
Abstract
Recent work suggests that the auditory organ of Drosophila may serve as an excellent model system for understanding the complex mechanical signal processing that takes place in sensory hair cells of the vertebrate inner ear.
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Transducer-based force generation explains active process in Drosophila hearing.Curr Biol. 2008 Sep 23;18(18):1365-72. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.095. Epub 2008 Sep 11. Curr Biol. 2008. PMID: 18789690
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