The return to water in ancestral Xenopus was accompanied by a novel mechanism for producing and shaping vocal signals

Listeners locate potential mates using species-specific vocal signals. As tetrapods transitioned from water to land, lungs replaced gills, allowing expiration to drive sound production. Some frogs then returned to water. Here we explore how air-driven sound production changed upon re-entry to preser...

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Autores principales: Kwong-Brown, Ursula, Tobias, Martha L, Elias, Damian O, Hall, Ian C, Elemans, Coen PH, Kelley, Darcy B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2019
Materias:
Ecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6324873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30618379
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.39946

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6324873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30618379
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.39946

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