ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2012
Saccular-specific hair cell addition correlates with reproductive state-dependent changes in the auditory saccular sensitivity of a vocal fish.
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- Interspecific Variation in the Inner Ear Maculae of Sharks.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Reproductive state modulates utricular auditory sensitivity in a vocal fish.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Testosterone Treatment Mimics Seasonal Downregulation of Dopamine Innervation in the Auditory System of Female Midshipman Fish.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Article
- Estrogenic Modulation of Retinal Sensitivity in Reproductive Female Túngara Frogs.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Article
- Swim bladder enhances lagenar sensitivity to sound pressure and higher frequencies in female plainfin midshipman (The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- The effect of biological and anthropogenic sound on the auditory sensitivity of oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Ontogeny of Inner Ear Saccular Development in the Plainfin Midshipman (Porichthys notatus).Brain, behavior and evolution · 2020Article
- Reproductive-state dependent changes in saccular hair cell density of the vocal male plainfin midshipman fish.Hearing research · 2019Article
- Auditory evoked potentials of the plainfin midshipman fish (The Journal of experimental biology · 2019Article
- 25 Years of sensory drive: the evidence and its watery bias.Current zoology · 2018Article
- Brain Activation Patterns in Response to Conspecific and Heterospecific Social Acoustic Signals in Female Plainfin Midshipman Fish, Porichthys notatus.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2018Article
- Putting it in Context: Linking Auditory Processing with Social Behavior Circuits in the Vertebrate Brain.Integrative and comparative biology · 2017Review
- Seasonal plasticity of auditory saccular sensitivity in "sneaker" type II male plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Article
- Hearing sensitivity differs between zebrafish lines used in auditory research.Hearing research · 2016Article
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Abstract
The plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus, is a seasonal breeding teleost fish for which vocal-acoustic communication is essential for its reproductive success. Female midshipman use the saccule as the primary end organ for hearing to detect and locate "singing" males that produce multiharmonic advertisement calls during the summer breeding season. Previous work has shown that female auditory sensitivity changes seasonally with reproductive state; summer reproductive females become better suited than winter nonreproductive females to detect and encode the dominant higher harmonic components in the male's advertisement call, which are potentially critical for mate selection and localization. Here, we test the hypothesis that these seasonal changes in female auditory sensitivity are concurrent with seasonal increases in saccular hair cell receptors. We show that there is increased hair cell density in reproductive females and that this increase is not dependent on body size since similar changes in hair cell density were not found in the other inner ear end organs. We also observed an increase in the number of small, potentially immature saccular hair bundles in reproductive females. The seasonal increase in saccular hair cell density and smaller hair bundles in reproductive females was paralleled by a dramatic increase in the magnitude of the evoked saccular potentials and a corresponding decrease in the auditory thresholds recorded from the saccule. This demonstration of correlated seasonal plasticity of hair cell addition and auditory sensitivity may in part facilitate the adaptive auditory plasticity of this species to enhance mate detection and localization during breeding.
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