Hearing with an atympanic ear: Good vibration and poor sound-pressure detection in the royal python, Python regius

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 331-342

  Christensen, Christian Bech ^a   Christensen Dalsgaard, Jakob ^b   Brandt, Christian ^b   Madsen, Peter Tegiberg ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Evoked potentials; Hearing; Python regius; Royal python; Snakes; Vibration detection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EAR; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEAD; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE; SOUND; VIBRATION;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; EAR; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HEAD; HEARING; SOUND; VIBRATION;

PYTHON REGIUS; PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES; TETRAPODA;

EID: 84856413934     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.062539     Document Type: Article

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