Size matters: Diversity in swimbladders and Weberian ossicles affects hearing in catfishes

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1681-1689

  Lechner, Walter ^a   Ladich, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potential (AEP); Siluriformes; Weberian apparatus

Indexed keywords

AIR SAC; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CATFISH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AIR SACS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CATFISHES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HEARING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ARIIDAE; AUCHENIPTERIDAE; CALLICHTHYIDAE; HEPTAPTERIDAE; LORICARIIDAE; MALAPTERURIDAE; MOCHOKIDAE; PSEUDOPIMELODIDAE; SILURIFORMES;

EID: 46949107877     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.016436     Document Type: Article

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