A contractile cochlear frame is a common feature of the hearing organs in gekkota (Sauria, Squamata): A comparative study

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 87-101

  Ganeshina, Olga ^a,b   Vorobyev, Misha ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fibrocytes; Lizards, hearing; Mechanical and ionic homeostasis; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CYTOSKELETON; HEARING; HOMEOSTASIS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COCHLEA; CYTOSKELETON; HEARING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIZARDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ORGAN SIZE;

AGAMIDAE; ANIMALIA; DIPLODACTYLINAE; EUBLEPHARINAE; GEKKONIDAE; GEKKONINAE; GEKKOTA; IGUANIA; POGONA BARBATA; PYGOPODIDAE; SAURIA; SQUAMATA; TERATOSCINCUS SCINCUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 68749088810     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000235611     Document Type: Article

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