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Squid Hair Cells Found Across Entire Body, Offering Clues to Human Hearing Loss
Key Takeaways
- Case Western Reserve University researchers found that squid have hair cells lining their entire body surface, not only their heads and arms.
- The study, published in Current Biology, includes the first full-body mapping of lateral lines on squid, the arrays formed by hair cells.
- The team used light sheet microscopy, which illuminates one plane at a time to build 3D images while limiting tissue damage.
- Part of the research was conducted at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole as part of a three-year fellowship on how squid hear.
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DT Editorial Team··via phys.org