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Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae
BACKGROUND: Odontocetes (toothed whales) are the most species-rich marine mammal lineage. The catalyst for their evolutionary success is echolocation - a form of biological sonar that uses high-frequency sound, produced in the forehead and ultimately detected by the cochlea. The ubiquity of echoloca...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31651234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1525-x |