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Science 19 July 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5273, pp. 323 - 324
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5273.323
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Perspectives

David P. Corey, Jaime García-A&noveros

Cloning of a new protein that participates in mechanosensation in Caenorhabditis elegans (see J. Liu et al., p. 361) prompts this Perspective's discussion of the superfamily of ion channels that underlie this receptive process and the parallels between mechanosensation in worms and vertebrates.

The authors are in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Neurobiology and Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. E-Mail: corey{at}helix.mgh.harvard.edu


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