...Georgina A. Stooke-Vaughan; Nikolaus D. Obholzer; Sarah Baxendale; Sean G. Megason; Tanya T. Whitfield Otoliths are biomineralised structures important for balance and hearing in fish. Their counterparts in the mammalian inner ear, otoconia, have a primarily vestibular function. Otoliths...

...Xianwen Yu; Doreen Lau; Chee Peng Ng; Sudipto Roy Ciliary motility is necessary for many developmental and physiological processes in animals. In zebrafish, motile cilia are thought to be required for the deposition of otoliths, which comprise crystals of protein and calcium carbonate, on hair...

... phenotype; these fall into several phenotypic classes, affecting presence or size of the otoliths, size and shape of the otic vesicle and formation of the semicircular canals, and define at least 20 complementation groups. Mutations in seven genes cause loss of one or both otoliths, but do not appear...