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Nature Neuroscience 10, 1232 - 1233 (2007)
Corrected online: 23 October 2007 | doi:10.1038/nn1007-1232



There is an Erratum (December 2007) associated with this News and Views.

Stringing the fiddle: the inner ear's two-part invention

David P Corey1

  1. David Corey is in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. e-mail: dcorey@hms.harvard.edu


The identity of the tip link, which converts mechanical force to channel opening in hair cells, has been controversial, with different groups promoting cadherin 23 or protocadherin 15. A new paper in Nature shows that both proteins are involved.

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* In the version of this article initially published, the legends for Figure 1d and f were switched, and citations to these panels in the text were incorrect. In addition, references to specific animal models in ref. 10 were inaccurate. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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