Humidity sensation , cockroaches , worms and humans : are common sensory 1 mechanisms for hygrosensation shared across species ? 2
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Humidity sensation, cockroaches, worms and humans: are common sensory 1 mechanisms for hygrosensation shared across species? 2 Davide Filingeri 3 4 Environmental Ergonomics Research Centre, Loughborough Design School, Loughborough 5 University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK 6 7 Target article: 8 Russell J, Vidal-Gadea AG, Makay A, Lanam C, Pierce-Shimomura JT. Humidity 9 sensation requires both mechanosensory and thermosensory pathways in Caenorhabditis 10 elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111: 8269–8274, 2014. 11 12 Running title: 13 HYGROSENSATION ACROSS DIFFERENT SPECIES 14 15 Corresponding author: 16 Davide Filingeri 17 Environmental Ergonomics Research Centre, Loughborough Design School, Loughborough 18 University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom 19 E-mail: [email protected] 20 Phone: +44 (0)1509 223022 21 22 23 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (October 15, 2014). doi:10.1152/jn.00730.2014
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