Do Swiftlets have an ear for echolocation? The functional morphology of Swiftlets' middle ears

Hearing Research

Volumn 225, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 25-37

  Thomassen, Henri A ^a   Gea, Stefan ^b   Maas, Steve ^b   Bout, Ron G ^a   Dirckx, Joris J J ^b   Decraemer, Willem F ^b   Povel, G David E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CT; 3D reconstruction; Echolocation; Middle ear; Modelling; Swiftlet

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; BIRD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOLOCATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEARING ACUITY; IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE EAR; NONHUMAN; OILBIRD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGID ROD MODEL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SWIFTLET; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EAR, MIDDLE; ECHOLOCATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33847117328     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

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