Article
Genetic analysis of vertebrate sensory hair cell mechanosensation: the zebrafish circler mutants.
Neuron - 1 Feb 1998
Nicolson T, Rüsch A, Friedrich R W, Granato M, Ruppersberg J P, Nüsslein-Volhard C
Abstract excerpt
The molecular basis of sensory hair cell mechanotransduction is largely unknown. In order to identify genes that are essential for mechanosensory hair cell function, we characterized a group of recently isolated zebrafish motility mutants. These mutants are defective in balance and swim in circle...
Topics
- Acoustic Stimulation
- Air Sacs
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Electrophysiology
- Hair Cells, Vestibular
- Larva
- Lighting
- Mechanoreceptors
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Reflex
- Reflex, Startle
- Zebrafish