Hearing mechanics: a fly in your ear.
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.
Bechstedt
Susanne
S
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany. bechsted@mpi-cbg.de
Howard
Jonathon
J
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