The middle ear of gekkonoid lizards: interspecific variation of structure in relation to body size and to auditory sensitivity
Hearing Research, ISSN: 0378-5955, Vol: 167, Issue: 1, Page: 33-45
2002
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Article Description
Wishing to assess the effects of the dimensions of the middle ear on the auditory sensitivity of gekkonoid lizards, we measured middle ear components in preserved geckos, which in life had yielded ‘cochlear microphonics’ audiograms. We examined two to seven specimens of 14 species. The measures of middle ear elements varied relative to head or body length similarly within species and among species. The areas of the external ear opening, tympanic membrane, and columellar footplate, and the ratio between the last two (‘hydraulic lever’), were correlated with animal length. The hydraulic and mechanical (extracolumellar) lever ratios appeared to complement each other, the former being emphasized in large animals, the latter in small animals. The apparent auditory sensitivity correlated with the sizes of the animal, head and external ear opening, and negatively (insignificantly) correlated with the mechanical lever ratio. The correlation of sensitivity with the hydraulic lever was insignificant, perhaps due to a ‘tympanic membrane lever’ (catenary effect). The most sensitive frequency negatively correlated with the area of the external ear opening, the area of the tympanic membrane, and with the level of greatest sensitivity. It was positively correlated with the relative length of the cartilaginous portion of the ossicular chain. However, the number of hair cells in the basilar papilla, too, is known to correlate with animal size. Moreover, the least sensitive species were not only the smallest species, they were also the species known to lack a zone of unidirectional hair cells in the basilar papilla. Hence the apparent sensitivity hypothetically depends on both middle ear dimensions and summation of inner ear output. This hypothesis requires verification by other methods.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378595502003313; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-5955(02)00331-3; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0036019871&origin=inward; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12117528; https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0378595502003313; http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0378595502003313; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0378595502003313?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0378595502003313?httpAccept=text/plain; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-5955%2802%2900331-3; https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-5955%2802%2900331-3
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