ArticleNature communications2011
Ultrasonic frogs show extraordinary sex differences in auditory frequency sensitivity.
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- Females and males respond differently to calls impaired by noise in a tree frog.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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- Auditory brainstem responses in the red-eared slider Trachemys scripta elegans (Testudoformes: Emydidae) reveal sexually dimorphic hearing sensitivity.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
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- A Frog-Derived Immunomodulatory Peptide Promotes Cutaneous Wound Healing by Regulating Cellular Response.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Article
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- Earless toads sense low frequencies but miss the high notes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Vocalizations of female frogs contain nonlinear characteristics and individual signatures.PloS one · 2017Article
- An exception to the matched filter hypothesis: A mismatch of male call frequency and female best hearing frequency in a torrent frog.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
Acoustic communication has an important role in the reproductive behaviour of anurans. Although males of the concave-eared frog (Odorrana tormota) have shown an ultrasonic communication capacity adapted to the intense, predominately low-frequency ambient noise from local streams, whether the females communicate with ultrasound remains unclear. Here we present evidence that females exhibit no ultrasonic sensitivity. Acoustic playback experiments show that the calls from male evoke phonotaxis and vocal responses from gravid females, whereas the ultrasonic components (frequencies above 20 kHz) of the calls do not elicit any phonotaxis or vocalization in the females. Electrophysiological recordings from the auditory midbrain reveal an upper frequency limit at 16 kHz in females. Laser Doppler vibrometer measurements show that the velocity amplitude of the tympanic membranes peaks at 5 kHz in females and at ∼7 kHz in males. The auditory sex differences in O. tormota imply that ultrasonic hearing has evolved only in male anurans.
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