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Hydrodynamic Receptor Systems in Invertebrates

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The Mechanosensory Lateral Line

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Water currents are among the most basic events in the environment for almost all aquatic invertebrates. Since these animals are predominantly active at night or have no or only poorly developed eyes to localize a moving prey, predator, or conspecific, water currents–with or without chemical signals–are probably the most important source of information about events in their environment. Thus, in aquatic invertebrates one should expect a widespread occurrence of receptor systems that are sensitive to some kind of water movement.

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  1. Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University of Chicago, 60626, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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  2. Faculty of Biology Department of Neurophysiology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany

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  3. Faculty of Biology Department of Neurophysiology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany

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Budelmann, BU. (1989). Hydrodynamic Receptor Systems in Invertebrates. In: Coombs, S., Görner, P., Münz, H. (eds) The Mechanosensory Lateral Line. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3560-6_31

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