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Vestigial hearing in a fossorial mammal, the pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius).

R S Heffner1, H E Heffner.   

Abstract

Behavioral tests of hearing and sound localization in the North American pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) show that it is unique among mammals. It has a severely attenuated range of hearing and only rudimentary ability to localize sound. In these respects, the hearing of gophers can be properly termed 'vestigial' and suggests that life underground can produce as severe a change in hearing as a light-less world produces in vision or an odorless world produces in olfaction.

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Year:  1990        PMID： 2394636     DOI： 10.1016/0378-5955(90)90005-a

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Hear Res        ISSN： 0378-5955            Impact factor:   3.208


  18 in total

1.  Volumes of cochlear nucleus regions in rodents.

Authors:  Donald A Godfrey; Augustine C Lee; Walter D Hamilton; Louis C Benjamin; Shilpa Vishwanath; Hermann Simo; Lynn M Godfrey; Abdurrahman I A A Mustapha; Rickye S Heffner
Journal:  Hear Res       Date:  2016-07-18       Impact factor: 3.208

2.  Amino acid and acetylcholine chemistry in mountain beaver cochlear nucleus and comparisons to pocket gopher, other rodents, and cat.

Authors:  Donald A Godfrey; Nikki L Mikesell; Timothy G Godfrey; James A Kaltenbach
Journal:  Hear Res       Date:  2019-11-10       Impact factor: 3.208

3.  Living in a "stethoscope": burrow-acoustics promote auditory specializations in subterranean rodents.

Authors:  Simone Lange; Hynek Burda; Regina E Wegner; Philip Dammann; Sabine Begall; Mathias Kawalika
Journal:  Naturwissenschaften       Date:  2006-11-21

4.  Structure and function of the mammalian middle ear. I: Large middle ears in small desert mammals.

Authors:  Matthew J Mason
Journal:  J Anat       Date:  2015-06-23       Impact factor: 2.610

5.  A broad filter between call frequency and peripheral auditory sensitivity in northern grasshopper mice (Onychomys leucogaster).

Authors:  Dana M Green; Tucker Scolman; O'neil W Guthrie; Bret Pasch
Journal:  J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol       Date:  2019-04-27       Impact factor: 1.836

6.  Ossicular differentiation of airborne and seismic stimuli in the Cape golden mole (Chrysochloris asiatica).

Authors:  U B Willi; G N Bronner; P M Narins
Journal:  J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol       Date:  2005-11-09       Impact factor: 1.836

7.  Hearing in coruros (Spalacopus cyanus): special audiogram features of a subterranean rodent.

Authors:  Sabine Begall; Hynek Burda; Bianca Schneider
Journal:  J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol       Date:  2004-08-18       Impact factor: 1.836

8.  Sound localization acuity and its relation to vision in large and small fruit-eating bats: II. Non-echolocating species, Eidolon helvum and Cynopterus brachyotis.

Authors:  R S Heffner; G Koay; H E Heffner
Journal:  Hear Res       Date:  2008-05-13       Impact factor: 3.208

9.  Structure and function of the cochlea in the African mole rat (Cryptomys hottentotus): evidence for a low frequency acoustic fovea.

Authors:  M Müller; B Laube; H Burda; V Bruns
Journal:  J Comp Physiol A       Date:  1992-11       Impact factor: 1.836

10.  Sound-localization acuity and its relation to vision in large and small fruit-eating bats: I. Echolocating species, Phyllostomus hastatus and Carollia perspicillata.

Authors:  R S Heffner; G Koay; H E Heffner
Journal:  Hear Res       Date:  2007-06-09       Impact factor: 3.208
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