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Neuronal Basis of Source Localisation and the Processing of Bulk Water Flow with the Fish Lateral Line

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Fish perceive local water motions and local pressure gradients with their mechanosensory lateral line. The sensory units of the lateral line are the neuromasts that are distributed across the surface of the animal. Water motions are received and transduced into neuronal signals by neuromast hair cells. The information is then conveyed by afferent nerve fibers to the fish brain and processed by lateral line neurons in distinct nuclei of the brainstem, cerebellum, midbrain, and forebrain. The present review introduces the peripheral morphology of the lateral line and describes physiological work, thereby focussing on recent studies that have investigated what kind of sensory information is provided by dipole sources and bulk water flow, and how fish use and process this flow information.

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Abbreviations

ALLN:

Anterior lateral line nerve

CN:

Canal neuromast

MON:

Medial octavolateralis nucleus

PLLN:

Posterior lateral line nerve

PIV:

Particle image velocimetry

PSTH:

Peri stimulus time histogram

SN:

Superficial neuromast

RF:

Receptive field

TS:

Torus semicircularis

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We are indebted to Sheryl Coombs for carefully reading and commenting on the manuscript. The original research of the authors was generously supported by the DFG, the BMBF, DARPA, the BfG, DAAD, and the EU.

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Bleckmann, H., Mogdans, J. (2014). Neuronal Basis of Source Localisation and the Processing of Bulk Water Flow with the Fish Lateral Line. In: Bleckmann, H., Mogdans, J., Coombs, S. (eds) Flow Sensing in Air and Water. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41446-6_15

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