Characteristics of echolocating bats' auditory stereocilia length, compared with other mammals

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 492-496

  Yao, Qian ^a,f   Zeng, JinYao ^b   Zheng, YongMei ^c   Latham, Julia ^d   Liang, Bing ^a   Jiang, Lei ^c   Zhang, ShuYi ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Echolocating bats; Scanning electron microscopy (SEM); Stereocilia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; ECHOLOCATION; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; HAIR CELL; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CILIA; ECHOLOCATION; HAIR CELLS, INNER; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; MAMMALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ORGAN OF CORTI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; MURINA LEUCOGASTER; MYOTIS ADVERSUS; NYCTALUS; NYCTALUS VELUTINUS; RHINOLOPHUS FERRUMEQUINUM;

EID: 34547199442     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: 18622798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-007-0055-8     Document Type: Article

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