The function of vertebrate hearing is served by a surprising variety of sensory structures in the different groups of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. This book discusses the origin, specialization, and functional properties of sensory hair cells, beginning with environmental constraints on acoustic systems and addressing in detail the evolutionary history behind modern structure and function in the vertebrate ear. Taking a comparative approach, chapters are devoted to each of the vertebrate groups, outlining the transition to land existence and the further parallel and independent adaptations of amniotic groups living in air. The volume explores in depth the specific properties of hair cells that allowed them to become sensitive to sound and capable of analyzing sounds into their respective frequency components. Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System is directed to a broad audience of biologists and clinicians, from the level of advanced undergraduate students to professionals interested in learning more about the evolution, structure, and function of the ear.
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hair cell areas, papillar length, abneural hair cells, periotic canal, lizard papillae, hair cell evolution, stereovillar bundles, hair cell specializations, tall hair cells, short hair cells, periotic sac, hair cell orientation patterns, lagenar recess, monotreme cochlea, squamosal sulcus, hearing specializations, auditory papilla, periotic space, external fossa, hearing epithelium, pneumatic realm, frog basilar papilla, vertebrate sensory hair cells, micromechanical tuning, macula neglecta Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Hear Res, Comp Neurol, Comp Physiol, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Soc Lond, Brain Behav Evol, Comparative Hearing, Brain Res, Exp Biol, Linn Soc, Academic Press, John Wiley, Philos Trans, Curr Opin Neurobiol, Trends Neurosci, Vergl Physiol, Vert Paleont, Vertebrate Paleontol, Acta Zool, Assoc Res Otolaryngol, Cambridge University Press, Exp Zool, North America, Princeton University Press New!
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hair cell areas, papillar length, abneural hair cells, periotic canal, lizard papillae, hair cell evolution, stereovillar bundles, hair cell specializations, tall hair cells, short hair cells, periotic sac, hair cell orientation patterns, lagenar recess, monotreme cochlea, squamosal sulcus, hearing specializations, auditory papilla, periotic space, external fossa, hearing epithelium, pneumatic realm, frog basilar papilla, vertebrate sensory hair cells, micromechanical tuning, macula neglecta Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Hear Res, Comp Neurol, Comp Physiol, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Soc Lond, Brain Behav Evol, Comparative Hearing, Brain Res, Exp Biol, Linn Soc, Academic Press, John Wiley, Philos Trans, Curr Opin Neurobiol, Trends Neurosci, Vergl Physiol, Vert Paleont, Vertebrate Paleontol, Acta Zool, Assoc Res Otolaryngol, Cambridge University Press, Exp Zool, North America, Princeton University Press New!
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- The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing by Douglas B. Webster on 27 pages
- Comparative Hearing: Mammals (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Richard R. Fay on 24 pages
- Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Robert J. Dooling on 12 pages
- Comparative Hearing: Fish and Amphibians (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Richard R. Fay on 11 pages
- The Mammalian Auditory Pathway: Neuroanatomy (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Douglas B Webster on 6 pages
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- Sound Source Localization (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Richard R. Fay on page 5, page 119, and Back Matter
- Electroreception (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Theodore Holmes Bullock on page 261, and Back Matter
- Pitch: Neural Coding and Perception (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Christopher J. Plack in Back Matter
- Development of the Inner Ear (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Matthew Kelley in Back Matter
- Plasticity of the Auditory System by Thomas N. Parks in Back Matter
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