Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Manley, Geoffrey A.; Fay, Richard R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes a comparative approach to the evolution of sensory cells in the auditory systems of vertebrates. The authors follow the adaptation of hearing capabilities in fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, exploring in depth the specific properties of auditory cells that allowed them to become sensitive to sound and capable of analyzing sounds into their respective frequency components.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441989574
• Artikelnr.: 44184074

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey A. Manley, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany / Arthur N. Popper, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA / Richard R. Fay, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1 An Outline of the Evolution of Vertebrate HearingOrgans.- 2 Environmental Variables and the Fundamental Nature of Hearing.- 3 Evolution of Sensory Hair Cells.- 4 Parallel Evolution in Fish Hearing Organs.- 5 The Evolution of Single- and Multiple-Ossicle Ears in Fishes and Tetrapods.- 6 Evolution of the Amphibian Ear.- 7 The Lizard Basilar Papilla and Its Evolution.- 8 Hearing Organ Evolution and Specialization: Archosaurs.- 9 Hearing Organ Evolution and Specialization: Early and Later Mammals.- 10 The Evolution of Central Pathways and Their Neural Processing Patterns.- 11 Advances and Perspectives in the Study of the Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System.- Appendix: Useful Concepts from Circuit Theory.