Evolution of Neurosensory Cells and Systems : Gene regulation and cellular networks and processes (Paperback)

Introduction and overview; from the molecular basis of a given sense and diversified the various senses to expand and contracts in different species. Olfactory development and evolution: from sensing to cortical information processing. Vision and retina information processing: going from opsins to the visual cortex. Trigeminal and related spinal projections: how to cross or not the multisensory projections. Taste buds explained: from taste sending to taste processing in the forbrain. Vestibular processing: from mechanosensation to the cortex underlies a broad input. Auditory as derived ‘vestibular’ sensory input: keeping the same molecular transduction in a different way to hear. Lateral line input to ‘almost’ all vertebrates is a common organization with different distinct connections. Electroreception: a novel hair cell derived sense of some but not all vertebrates. Integrated perspective of common and differences across variable sensory receptors and their central and distinct forebrain inputs