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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 203, Issue 16 2495-2502, Copyright © 2000 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Responses of anterior lateral line afferent neurones to water flow

R Voigt, AG Carton and JC Montgomery
Experimental Biology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.

The mechanoreceptive lateral line system detects hydrodynamic stimuli and plays an important role in a number of types of fish behaviour, including orientation to water currents. The lateral line is composed of hair cell receptor organs called neuromasts that occur as superficial neuromasts on the surface of the skin or canal neuromasts located in subepidermal canals. Both are innervated by primary afferents of the lateral line nerves. Although there have been extensive studies of the response properties of lateral line afferents to vibrating sources, their response to water flow has not been reported. In this study, we recorded extracellularly from anterior lateral line afferents in the New Zealand long-fin eel Anguilla dieffenbachii while stimulating the eel with unidirectional water flows at 0.5-4 cm s(-)(1). Of the afferents, 80 % were flow-sensitive to varying degrees, the response magnitude increasing with flow rate. Flow-sensitive fibres gave non-adapting tonic responses, indicating that these fibres detect absolute flow velocity. Further studies are needed to confirm whether flow-sensitive and flow-insensitive fibres correlate with superficial and canal neuromasts, respectively.


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