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A unique swim bladder-inner ear connection in a teleost fish revealed by a combined high-resolution microtomographic and three-dimensional histological study

BACKGROUND: In most modern bony fishes (teleosts) hearing improvement is often correlated with a close morphological relationship between the swim bladder or other gas-filled cavities and the saccule or more rarely with the utricle. A connection of an accessory hearing structure to the third end org...

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Autores principales: Schulz-Mirbach, Tanja, Heß, Martin, Metscher, Brian D, Ladich, Friedrich
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23826967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-11-75