Evidence for an auditory fovea in the New Zealand kiwi (apteryx mantelli)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Corfield, Jeremy ^a,b   Kubke, M Fabiana ^a   Parsons, Stuart ^b   Wild, J Martin ^a   Köppl, Christine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APTERYX MANTELLI; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BIRD; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; HAIR CELL; HEARING; INNER EAR; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; TONOTOPY; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STEREOCILIUM;

APTERYX AUSTRALIS; APTERYX AUSTRALIS MANTELLI; AVES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; EAR, INNER; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HEARING; NEW ZEALAND; PALAEOGNATHAE; STEREOCILIA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80051961208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023771     Document Type: Article

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