From Structure To Information In Sensory Systems - Proceedings Of The International School Of Biophysics: 5 (Series On Biophysics And Biocybernetics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9810235984 ISBN 13: 9789810235987

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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Synopsis

This text presents a sequel on the topics of photoreception and phototransduction covered by the first volume in the series. It adds the analysis of two other modalities of sensory reception and transduction - chemical and mechanical, which are phylogenetically much 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 two basic strategies common to different sensory modalities and specializations, and the ecological adaptions of each of them.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9810235984
• ISBN 13: 9789810235987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 540
• Editor: Taddei-ferretti Cloe, Musio C