Fritzsch B. Evolution of Neurosensory Cells and Systems...2022

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This book is an overview of primary sensory maps of vertebrates, characterized by continuous and discrete properties. The eight primary sensory maps of vertebrates have unique features and use distinct molecular cues, cell cycle exit, and activity combinations during development, regeneration, and plasticity. As an introduction and overview, the book provides a short overview for all eight sensory senses and presents through evolution and gene regulatory networks, the molecular cues needed for sensory processing. Independent contributions are included for olfactory, vision, trigeminal, taste, vestibular, auditory, lateral line, and electroreception.
The Senses: Perspectives from Brain, Sensory Ganglia, and Sensory Cell Development in Vertebrates
Development of the Olfactory System: From Sensory Neurons to Cortical Projections
Vision and Retina Information Processing: From Opsins to the Visual Cortex
Trigeminal and Related Spinal Projections: How to Cross or Not the Multisensory Projections
Taste Buds Explained: From Taste Sensing to Taste Processing in the Forebrain
Assembly and Functional Organization of the Vestibular System
Morphological and Molecular Ontogeny of the Auditory System
Lateral Line Input to ‘Almost’ All Vertebrates Shares a Common Organization with Different Distinct Connections
Electroreception Depends on Hair Cell-Derived Senses in Some Vertebrates
An Integrated Perspective of Commonalities and Differences across Sensory Receptors and Their Distinct Central Inputs