Cilia and sensory signaling: The journey from “animalcules” to human disease

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About the Authors

Piali Sengupta

* E-mail: sengupta@brandeis.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Cilia
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Sensory perception
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Cell signaling structures
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Sensory neurons
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Mammals
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Cellular structures and organelles
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Flagella
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Flagellar motility
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