Does improved hearing result in altered inner ear morphology?
The sense of hearing plays an important role for fishes to obtain information about their (acoustic) environment (e.g. Popper 2011, Fay 2011). In numerous taxa, ancillary auditory structures like swimbladder modifications evolved, leading to an improved audition (Braun and Grande 2008). Despite a pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Marine Science |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fmars.2015.03.00020/full |