ReviewJournal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution2011
The paratympanic organ: a barometer and altimeter in the middle ear of birds?
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- The inner ear is a barometric pressure sensor-change in barometric pressure induces vestibular ganglion cell activation in mice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The skate spiracular organ develops from a unique neurogenic placode that is distinct from lateral line placodes.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Impact of barometric pressure on blood pressure during dialysis: Introducing intradialytic time-averaged cumulative systolic blood pressure (TACsBP-inD) as a new metric.Therapeutic apheresis and dialysis : official peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Apheresis, the Japanese Society for Apheresis, the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy · 2025Article
- Identification of multiple transcription factor genes potentially involved in the development of electrosensoryFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
- Tympanostomy tube placement for pressure-sensitive vertigo.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2022Article
- Responding to the weather: energy budgeting by a small mammal in the wild.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Optic flow cues help explain altitude control over sea in freely flying gulls.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
- Lowering barometric pressure induces neuronal activation in the superior vestibular nucleus in mice.PloS one · 2019Article
- Lateral line placodes of aquatic vertebrates are evolutionarily conserved in mammals.Biology open · 2018Article
- Audiogram of the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) from 2 Hz to 9 kHz.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2014Article
- Giovanni Vitali: Discoverer of the paratympanic organ.Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft · 2013Article
- The amniote paratympanic organ develops from a previously undiscovered sensory placode.Nature communications · 2012Article
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Abstract
A century has passed since the discovery of the paratympanic organ (PTO), a mechanoreceptive sense organ in the middle ear of birds and other tetrapods. This luminal organ contains a sensory epithelium with typical mechanosensory hair cells and may function as a barometer and altimeter. The organ is arguably the most neglected sense organ in living tetrapods. The PTO is believed to be homologous to a lateral line sense organ, the spiracular sense organ of nonteleostean fishes. Our review summarizes the current state of knowledge of the PTO and draws attention to the astounding lack of information about the unique and largely unexplored sensory modality of barometric perception.
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