Mechanosensitivity is an essential component of phototransduction in vertebrate rods

• Ulisse Bocchero ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ulisse Bocchero, Fabio Falleroni, Simone Mortal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Photoreceptor Physiology Group, NEI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Neurobiology Department, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

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• Fabio Falleroni ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ulisse Bocchero, Fabio Falleroni, Simone Mortal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neurobiology Department, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

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• Simone Mortal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ulisse Bocchero, Fabio Falleroni, Simone Mortal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neurobiology Department, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6534-9324

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• Yunzhen Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Neurobiology Department, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

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• Dan Cojoc,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Materials, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Trieste, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2243-4478

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• Trevor Lamb,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Eccles Institute of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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• Vincent Torre

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: torre@sissa.it

  Affiliations Neurobiology Department, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang, China, Center of Systems Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, China

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