Hair Cells–Beyond the Transducer

Erratum to: J Membrane Biol DOI: 10.1007/s00232-005-0835-7

In the above-mentioned article, published in volume 209, pp 89–118 (2006), the authors wish to note the following:

The “unpublished observations” cited on p. 93, column 2, line 13 (Marcotti, Johnson and Kros) arose from MRC-sponsored work in the laboratory of Professor CJ Kros, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. In Figure 5 and the associatedlegend on p. 95, the schematic representation of the onset of mechano-electrical transducer current (onset of I_T: “from Marcotti W, Richardson GP and Kros CJ, unpublished observations”) in IHCs and OHCs was derived from Bryant et al., 2003. The representation of the developmental increase in size of I_T in OHCs was from unpublished observations (Marcotti, Richardson and Kros) from the Kros lab. The development of I_K1 in embryonic OHCs, not postnatal OHCs as stated in error in the last sentence of this figure legend, was similarly derived from unpublished observations from the Kros lab. Further, the authors wish to note that this figure shares a derivation with Fig. 2.5 in the chapter ‘The development of hair cells in the inner ear’ by RJ Goodyear, CJ Kros and GP Richardson, in Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Vol. 27: Vertebrate Hair Cells (editors RA Eatock, RR Fay and AN Popper), 2006.