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This book is a sequel on the topics of photoreception and phototransduction covered by Volume I of the series (Biophysics of Photoreception: Molecular and Phototransductive Events), adding the analysis of two other modalities of sensory reception and transduction — the chemical and mechanical ones, which are phylogenetically older. This characterization results not in a succession of three different and uncorrelated moments, but in a fruitful confrontation between experts which usually act separately and in an integration between various particular knowledges. This approach highlights the basic strategies common to different sensory modalities and specializations, as well as the ecological adaptations of each of them.
Contents:
- Introductory Lecture:
- The Role of the Chemical Senses and Specific Chemicals in Controlling Different Facets of the Behavior of Aquatic Animals (W E S Carr)
- Chemoreceptive Systems and Chemotransductive Processes:
- Olfaction: From Receptor Genes to Information Processing (D de Graaf et al.)
- Transduction and Adaptation in Olfactory Sensory Neurons (A Menini et al.)
- Mechanoreceptive Systems and Mechanotransductive Processes:
- The Supra-Molecular Basis of Mechanoelectric Transduction Studied in Concentric Hair Bundles of Invertebrates (U Thurm et al.)
- Mechanical Signal Conditioning in the Cochlea: Linear Processes (G K Yates)
- Photoreceptive Systems and Phototransductive Processes:
- Visual Excitation Mechanisms in Rhabdomeric Photoreceptors: Multiple Light-Dependent Channels, Ion Permeation and Gating (E Nasi & M del Pilar Gomez)
- Processing of Visual Information in the Fruitfly Drosophila (K G Götz)
- and other papers
Readership: Postdoctoral students and researchers in biophysics, neurosciences and physiology.
