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HEARING RESEARCH
卷 335, 期 -, 页码 47-52出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2016.02.007
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- National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET)
- National Agency for Promotion of Science and Technology (ANPCyT-PICT) [1522]
- Course of Action for Research and Science Promotion (CAI+D-UNL)
- National Agency for Promotion of Science and Technology (FONCyT)
To navigate in space most vertebrates need precise positional cues provided by a variety of sensors, including structures in the inner ear, which are exquisitely sensitive to gravity and linear acceleration. Although these structures have been described in many vertebrates, no information is available for anuran larvae. The purpose of our study was to describe, for the first time, the size, complexity and microchemistry of the saccular otoliths of the larva of 13 anuran species from central Argentina, using electron microscopy and X-ray spectroscopy (N = 65). We concluded that a) these structures differ in area, perimeter, otolith relative size and fractal dimension, but are similar in terms of their microchemistry when compared by spatial guilds, b) that nektonic species have larger otoliths than nektonic-benthic and benthic species and c) that benthic species have larger otolith relative size than nektonic-benthic and nektonic species. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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