...Arthur Van Damme; Emmanuelle Huet; Bruno Frédérich; Eric Parmentier ABSTRACT The inner ear of teleost fishes is known to serve both auditory and vestibular functions. Many studies have compared otoliths from different species and attempted to understand the observed differences in the light...

... pressure and higher frequencies in female plainfin midshipman, which may be adaptive for the detection of behaviorally relevant social signals. Communication Hearing Acoustic signal Inner ear Auditory threshold The inner ear of bony fishes consists of three semicircular canals and three...

... of three Fukomys species reveal a highly restricted hearing range. Hearing sensitivity Subterranean mammals Sound localization Auditory fovea Inner ear Middle ear African mole-rats of the genus Fukomys spend their entire life in underground tunnel systems. The aphotic subterranean...

...Viviane Wilms; Chris Söffgen; Hans Gerd Nothwang ABSTRACT Mechanoelectrical transduction in the vertebrate inner ear is a highly conserved mechanism that is dependent on K + influx into hair cells. Here, we investigated the molecular underpinnings of subsequent K + recycling in the chicken basilar...

... drive to produce regular and irregular firing. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 19 3 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 spike regularity inter-spike interval afterhyperpolarization vestibular ganglion inner ear eighth nerve...

...P. Payan; G. Borelli; F. Priouzeau; H. De Pontual; G. Bœuf; N. Mayer-Gostan SUMMARY Kinetic and pharmacological characteristics of Ca 2+ fluxes across the saccular epithelium of trout were studied using a perfused isolated inner ear. 45 Ca 2+ influx from the Ringer solution to the endolymph was 3-4...

...P. Payan; H. Kossmann; A. Watrin; N. Mayer-Gostan; G. Boeuf ABSTRACT Ionic (Na + , K + , Cl − , PO 4 3− , pH), total CO 2 , total calcium and protein concentrations in the plasma and endolymph of the inner ear were compared in trout Oncorhynchus mykiss and turbot Scophthalmus maximus . In both...

... stimulated by the vibrating membrane. The sensitivity of the units and the size of their receptive fields indicate that lateral line input converges in the medial nucleus. 2 2 1993 © 1993 by Company of Biologists 1993 lateral line inner ear medulla oblongata Oncorhynchus mykiss...

...Hans Erik Karlsen; Olav Sand ABSTRACT Fish possess two separate systems for detection of low-level sound and water motions in the low-frequency range: the inner ear and the lateral line. The relative roles of these systems in normal fish behaviour is still not clear. There is, for instance, a lack...