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ARTHROPOD mechanosensory neurones are of two types, uniterminal and multiterminal1. Transduction of a mechanical stimulus into a receptor potential occurs at the peripheral end of a sensory process of a neurone, apparently by compression: of an intracellular tubular body2,3 in uniterminal neurones or compression of the whole sensory terminal in multiterminal neurones4. The LC3 multiterminal receptor of the tsetse fly5 is exceptional; transduction involves bending of the sensory terminal so stretching the receptor membrane across a neuro-tubular cytoskeleton6.
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RICE, M., GALUN, R. & FINLAYSON, L. Mechanotransduction in Insect Neurones. Nature New Biology 241, 286–288 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio241286a0
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