Effects of saccular otolith removal on hearing sensitivity of the sleeper goby (Dormitator latifrons)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 595-602

  Lu, Z ^a,b,c   Xu, Z ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ear; Fish; Otolithic organ; Saccule; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FISH; HEARING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND DETECTION; VESTIBULE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FISHES; HEARING; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0036771031     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0334-6     Document Type: Article

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