Unterwater Hearing in the clawed frog, Xenopus

Vertebrate hearing originated in water. The clawed frog Xenopus lives and communidates acoustically under water. We study its hearing abilities and mechanisms to compare with the species' lateral-line system.

Principal investigators

Elepfandt, Andreas Prof. i. R. Dr. rer. nat. (Details) (Sensory Biology)

Financer

ohne Mittelgeber

Duration of project

Start date: 01/1998
End date: 07/2008

Publications

Elepfandt et al: Hearing threshold and frequency discrimination in the purely aquatic frog Xenopus laevis. J. Exp. Biol. 203: 3621-3629