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Selective Tracing of Auditory Fibers in the Avian Embryonic Vestibulocochlear Nerve
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Published on: March 18, 2013

クリケットカエルの聴覚系における地理的方言の符号化

R R Capranica, L S Frishkopf, E Nevo

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |December 21, 1973
    PubMed
    まとめ

    クリケットのカエル (Acris) は,地元の交尾声に調節された聴覚系を持っています. 聴覚の感度におけるこの地理的多様性は,彼らが自分の方言を認識することを保証します.

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