The book "Vertebrate Hair Cells" is part of the renowned Springer Handbook series on auditory research and provides comprehensive and synthetic overviews of fundamental topics in modern hearing research. It is aimed at a broad audience, including advanced students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical scientists interested in the science of hearing. Each volume is designed to introduce new researchers to important aspects of auditory science and to assist established researchers in better understanding the fundamental theories and data in areas of hearing that they may not regularly follow. Each volume thoroughly addresses a specific topic and serves as a synthetic overview and guide to the literature. The chapters do not provide exhaustive data overviews or unpublished original research but focus on topics with a solid data and conceptual foundation.