ArticleScientific reports2016
Evidence of Cnidarians sensitivity to sound after exposure to low frequency underwater sources.
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- Marine and Freshwater Sounds Impact Invertebrate Behavior and Physiology: A Meta-Analysis.Global change biology · 2024Pooled it
- Physiological effects of anthropogenic sound on aquatic animals: where are we and what is next?The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Review
- Marine-Inspired Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Neuromorphic Processing for Autonomous Navigation in Unstructured Subaquatic Environments.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Anthropogenic noise disrupts acoustic cues for recruitment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Statocyst Ultrastructure in the Norwegian Lobster (Biology · 2024Article
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- Seagrass Posidonia is impaired by human-generated noise.Communications biology · 2021Article
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- Diversity of cilia-based mechanosensory systems and their functions in marine animal behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- A proteomic analysis of the statocyst endolymph in common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis): an assessment of acoustic trauma after exposure to sound.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Continuous but not intermittent noise has a negative impact on mating success in a marine fish with paternal care.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A critical period of susceptibility to sound in the sensory cells of cephalopod hatchlings.Biology open · 2018Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Jellyfishes represent a group of species that play an important role in oceans, particularly as a food source for different taxa and as a predator of fish larvae and planktonic prey. The massive introduction of artificial sound sources in the oceans has become a concern to science and society. While we are only beginning to understand that non-hearing specialists like cephalopods can be affected by anthropogenic noises and regulation is underway to measure European water noise levels, we still don't know yet if the impact of sound may be extended to other lower level taxa of the food web. Here we exposed two species of Mediterranean Scyphozoan medusa, Cotylorhiza tuberculata and Rhizostoma pulmo to a sweep of low frequency sounds. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed injuries in the statocyst sensory epithelium of both species after exposure to sound, that are consistent with the manifestation of a massive acoustic trauma observed in other species. The presence of acoustic trauma in marine species that are not hearing specialists, like medusa, shows the magnitude of the problem of noise pollution and the complexity of the task to determine threshold values that would help building up regulation to prevent permanent damage of the ecosystems.
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