Insights from Comparative Hearing Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Köppl, Christine (Editor), Manley, Geoffrey A. (Editor), Popper, Arthur N. (Editor), Fay, Richard R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 49
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.

The hearing organs of non-mammals, which show quite large and systematic differences to each other and to those of mammals, provide an invaluable basis for comparisons of structure and function. By taking advantage of the vast diversity of possible study organisms provided by the "library"...

Table of Contents:

• Unique Contributions from Comparative Auditory Research
• Transduction and Amplification in the Ear: Insights from Insects
• Roles for Prestin in Harnessing the Basilar Membrane to the Organ of Corti
• Origin and development of hair-cell orientation in the inner ear
• The Remarkable Ear of Geckos and Pygopods
• Ultrasound Detection in Fishes and Frogs: Discovery and Mechanisms
• The Malleable Middle Ear: an Underappreciated Player in the Evolution of Hearing in Vertebrates
• Auditory Brainstem Processing in Reptiles and Amphibians: Roles of Coupled Ears
• Modern Imaging Techniques as a Window to Prehistoric Auditory Worlds
• Emu and Kiwi: The Ear and Hearing in Paleognathous Birds
• Diversity in Hearing in Fishes: Ecoacoustical, Communicative, and Developmental Constraints
• Reptile Auditory Neuroethology: What do Reptiles do with Their Hearing?
• Advances in Understanding the Auditory Brain of Songbirds.