Browsing Open Access Repositories by Subject "biophysics"
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A general mechanism for tuning: Gain control circuits and synapses underlie tuning of cortical neurons
(2004-12-31)Tuning to an optimal stimulus is a widespread property of neurons in cortex. We propose that such tuning is a consequence of normalization or gain control circuits. We also present a biologically plausible neural circuitry ...
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Aerotaxis in the closest relatives of animals
(eLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife, 2016-11-24)As the closest unicellular relatives of animals, choanoflagellates serve as useful model organisms for understanding the evolution of animal multicellularity. An important factor in animal evolution was the increasing ocean ...