Cover: The cover image shows Left panel: Scheme of an IHC with its stereocilia (in yellow) anchored at the apical pole and its afferent boutons (in brown) located at the basolateral region. Middle panel: longitudinal section of IHC after 3D reconstruction from a cochlear whole mount preparation labeled for otoferlin (in red) and Myo6 (in green). Right panel: close up view of the basolateral region of three IHCs. The yellow varicosities in the merged images represent IHC areas where the two proteins are colocalized. See I. Roux et al., pp. 4615-4628.
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