Effects of age and size in the ears of gekkotan lizards: Auditory sensitivity, its determinants, and new insights into tetrapod middle-ear function

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 456, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 951-967

  Werner, Yehudah L ^a,b   Montgomery, Lynda G ^c   Seifan, Merav ^d   Saunders, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Columella footplate; Compound action potential; Gecko; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Tympanic membrane

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS; HEARING ACUITY; LIZARD; MIDDLE EAR; NONHUMAN; OEDURA MARMORATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BODY SIZE; EAR; HEARING; LIZARDS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 45649084927     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: 14322013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-008-0462-0     Document Type: Article

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