Why otoliths? Insights from inner ear physiology and fisheries biology

Marine and Freshwater Research - Tập 56 Số 5 - Trang 497 - 2005
Arthur N. Popper1, John Ramcharitar2, Steven E. Campana3
1Department of Biology and Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
2Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
3Marine Fish Division, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, PO Box 1006, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A2, Canada.

Tóm tắt

Otoliths are of interest to investigators from several disciplines including systematics, auditory neuroscience, and fisheries. However, there is often very little sharing of information or ideas about otoliths across disciplines despite similarities in the questions raised by different groups of investigators. A major purpose of this paper is to present otolith-related questions common to all disciplines and then demonstrate that the issues are not only similar but also that more frequent interactions would be mutually beneficial. Because otoliths evolved as part of the inner ear to serve the senses of balance and hearing, we first discuss the basic structure of the ear. We then raise several questions that deal with the structure and patterns of otolith morphology and how changes in otoliths with fish age affect hearing and balance. More specifically, we ask about the significance of otolith size and how this might affect ear function; the growth of otoliths and how hearing and balance may or may not change with growth; the significance of different otolith shapes with respect to ear function; the functional significance of otoliths that do not contact the complete sensory epithelium; and why teleost fishes have otoliths and not the otoconia found in virtually all other extant vertebrates.

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo

Beamish, 1979, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 36, 1395, 10.1139/f79-199

Boehlert, 1985, Fishery Bulletin, 83, 103

Campana, 1999, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 188, 263, 10.3354/meps188263

Campana, 2001, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 58, 30, 10.1139/f00-177

Chang, 1992, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 324, 621, 10.1002/cne.903240413

Chapman, 1973, Journal of Comparative Physiology, 85, 147, 10.1007/BF00696473

Dunkelberger, 1980, Journal of Morphology, 163, 367, 10.1002/jmor.1051630309

Fay, 2000, Hearing Research, 149, 1, 10.1016/S0378-5955(00)00168-4

Finneran, 2000, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 1308, 10.1121/1.1286099

Hawkins, 1978, Journal of Fish Biology, 13, 655, 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1978.tb03480.x

Higgs, 2001, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 3, 174, 10.1007/s101620020035

Hudspeth, 2000, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 97, 11 765, 10.1073/pnas.97.22.11765

Lanford, 2000, Hearing Research, 143, 1, 10.1016/S0378-5955(00)00015-0

Lombarte, 1994, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 345, 419, 10.1002/cne.903450308

Lychakov, 1993, Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology, 28, 531

Lychakov, 2000, Hearing Research, 143, 83, 10.1016/S0378-5955(00)00026-5

Mann, 1983, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, 218, 415, 10.1098/rspb.1983.0048

Mann, 2001, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 3048, 10.1121/1.1368406

Plachta, 2003, Acoustics Research Letters Online, 4, 25, 10.1121/1.1558376

Platt, 1984, Scanning Electron Microscopy, 1984, 1915

Popper, 1977, Journal of Morphology, 153, 397, 10.1002/jmor.1051530306

Popper, 1980, The American Journal of Anatomy, 157, 115, 10.1002/aja.1001570202

Popper, 1998, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 127, 673, 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<0673:AOSAOS>2.0.CO;2

Popper, 1981, Journal of Comparative Physiology, 144, 27, 10.1007/BF00612794

Ramcharitar, 2004, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 1687, 10.1121/1.1771614

Ramcharitar, 2001, Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 58, 152, 10.1159/000047269

Ramcharitar, 2004, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 475, 531, 10.1002/cne.20192

Rogers, 1988, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 83, 338, 10.1121/1.396444

Spoor, 2002, Nature, 417, 163, 10.1038/417163a

Thông tin
Thông tin xuất bản

Marine and Freshwater Research

Tập 56 Số 5

497

Thông tin tác giả