Supra-orbital whiskers act as wind-sensing antennae in rats.

Supra-orbital whiskers act as wind-sensing antennae in rats.

We know little about mammalian anemotaxis or wind sensing. Recently, however, Hartmann and colleagues showed whisker-based anemotaxis in rats. To investigate how whiskers sense airflow, we first tracked whisker tips in anesthetized rats under low (0.5 m/s) and high (1.5 m/s) airflow. Whisker tips sh...

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Main Authors: Matias Mugnaini, Dhruv Mehrotra, Federico Davoine, Varun Sharma, Ana Rita Mendes, Ben Gerhardt, Miguel Concha-Miranda, Michael Brecht, Ann M Clemens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-07-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002168

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002168

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