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SUBMITTER: Ji YR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5935481 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ji Young Rae YR Warrier Sunita S Jiang Tao T Wu Doris K DK Kindt Katie S KS
eLife 20180419
The orientation of hair bundles on top of sensory hair cells (HCs) in neuromasts of the lateral line system allows fish to detect direction of water flow. Each neuromast shows hair bundles arranged in two opposing directions and each afferent neuron innervates only HCs of the same orientation. Previously, we showed that this opposition is established by expression of Emx2 in half of the HCs, where it mediates hair bundle reversal (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="bib15">Jiang et al., 2017</xref>). Her ...[more]