Birds - same thing, but different? Convergent evolution in the avian and mammalian auditory systems provides informative comparative models

Hearing Research

Volumn 273, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 65-71

  Köppl, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POPULATION; COCHLEA; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EFFERENT NERVE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAIR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; COCHLEA; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HEARING; MAMMALS;

EID: 79952898036     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.03.095     Document Type: Article

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