The Lateral Line System

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Coombs, Sheryl (Editor), Bleckmann, Horst (Editor), Fay, Richard R. (Editor), Popper, Arthur N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 48
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Biomedicine.

The Lateral Line System provides an overview of the key concepts and issues surrounding the development, evolution, neurobiology, and function of the lateral line, a fascinating yet somewhat enigmatic flow-sensing system. The book examines the historical precedence for linking the auditory and later...

Table of Contents:

• The Gems of the Past: A Brief History of Lateral Line Research in the Context of the Hearing Sciences
• Morphological Diversity, Development, and Evolution of the Mechanosensory Lateral Line System
• The Hydrodynamic of Flow Stimuli
• The Biophysics of the Fish Lateral Line
• Sensory Ecology and Neuroethology of the Lateral Line
• Information Encoding and Processing by the Peripheral Lateral Line System
• The Central Nervous Organization of the Lateral Line System
• Central Processing of Lateral Line Information
• Functional Overlap and Nonoverlap Between Lateral Line and Auditory Systems
• The Hearing Loss, Protection, and Regeneration in the Larval Zebrafish Lateral Line.