Abstract
Sensory systems play a crucial role in animal survival, including mechanoreception (somatosensory and auditory systems), chemoreception (smell and taste), and photoreception (vision). From a genetic point of view, most sensory receptors are inserted in large gene families. In the somatosensory system, TRP channels (subfamilies TRPA, TRPM and TRPV) and Piezo channels 1 and 2 are the best c…