FIGURE 7.

Various bundle shapes. Top-down views of hair bundles and vertical columns of hair bundles along the bilateral symmetry line are shown. The geometric values were measured from the confocal microscopic images (E. H. Peterson, Ohio University, personal communication, 2005). The kinocilium is indicated with “K”. The lines of bilateral symmetry, which are also the E-I axes, are drawn on the top-down views. The scale bars indicate 1 μm. The hair bundles are from the macular surface of the medial extrastriola (A) and striola (B) in the turtle utricle and the striola in the mouse utricle (C).