Early development and orientation of the acoustic funnel provides insight into the evolution of soun...
Early development and orientation of the acoustic funnel provides insight into the evolution of sound reception pathways in cetaceans
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United States: Public Library of Science
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Whales receive underwater sounds through a fundamentally different mechanism than their close terrestrial relatives. Instead of hearing through the ear canal, cetaceans hear through specialized fatty tissues leading to an evolutionarily novel feature: an acoustic funnel located anterior to the tympanic aperture. We traced the ontogenetic developmen...
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Early development and orientation of the acoustic funnel provides insight into the evolution of sound reception pathways in cetaceans
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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1662426526
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1662426526
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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10.1371/journal.pone.0118582
