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Adaptive Radiation of Mechanoreception

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Sensory Ecology

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Abstract

Sensitivity to mechanical energy is a fundamental characteristic of living systems, from single cells to complex organisms, a sensitivity no less ubiquitous than that to thermal energy or radiation. There are, however, vast differences in reception thresholds and in filtering properties of the mechanoreceptive systems depending on the accessory structures which first accept the stimulus and transmit it to the sensory elements, more often than not transforming it on its way to them, until finally transduction from mechanical stimulus energy to excitation of the sensory cell membrane occurs (Burkhardt, 1960). These processes determine, together with the response characteristics of the sensory cells, to which specific form of mechanical energy a system is sensitive, whether sensitivity is directionally polarized or not and what the difference thresholds are for stimulus changes in the time and in the intensity domains. Central processing of the mechanoreceptive excitation can further affect the mechanoreceptive properties of the whole organism, e.g. by allowing to localize stimulus direction by comparing the input from several spatially distributed sense organs.

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