ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2019
A Functional Perspective on the Evolution of the Cochlea.
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- Making sense of vertebrate senses from a neural crest and cranial placode evo-devo perspective.Trends in neurosciences · 2025Review
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- Convergent evolution in Afrotheria and non-afrotherians demonstrates high evolvability of the mammalian inner ear.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Normal behavioral discrimination of envelope statistics in budgerigars with kainate-induced cochlear synaptopathy.Hearing research · 2024Article
- Domestic cat nose functions as a highly efficient coiled parallel gas chromatograph.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- The ultrastructure of a stria vascularis in the auditory organ of the cuban crocodile (Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Insights into Inner Ear Function and Disease Through Novel Visualization of the Ductus Reuniens, a Seminal Communication Between Hearing and Balance Mechanisms.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2022Article
- Cochlear Development; New Tools and Approaches.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Vestibular Deficits in Deafness: Clinical Presentation, Animal Modeling, and Treatment Solutions.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
- Encoding sound in the cochlea: from receptor potential to afferent discharge.The Journal of physiology · 2021Review
- Exploring ancestral phenotypes and evolutionary development of the mammalian middle ear based on Early Cretaceous Jehol mammals.National science review · 2021Article
- Progress in Gene Editing Tools and Their Potential for Correcting Mutations Underlying Hearing and Vision Loss.Frontiers in genome editing · 2021Review
- Functional, Morphological, and Evolutionary Characterization of Hearing in Subterranean, Eusocial African Mole-Rats.Current biology : CB · 2020Article
- Evolution of the Mammalian Ear: An Evolvability Hypothesis.Evolutionary biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
This review summarizes paleontological data as well as studies on the morphology, function, and molecular evolution of the cochlea of living mammals (monotremes, marsupials, and placentals). The most parsimonious scenario is an early evolution of the characteristic organ of Corti, with inner and outer hair cells and nascent electromotility. Most remaining unique features, such as loss of the lagenar macula, coiling of the cochlea, and bony laminae supporting the basilar membrane, arose later, after the separation of the monotreme lineage, but before marsupial and placental mammals diverged. The question of when hearing sensitivity first extended into the ultrasonic range (defined here as >20 kHz) remains speculative, not least because of the late appearance of the definitive mammalian middle ear. The last significant change was optimizing the operating voltage range of prestin, and thus the efficiency of the outer hair cells' amplifying action, in the placental lineage only.
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