Functional Parameters of Prestin Are Not Correlated With the Best Hearing Frequency

Among the vertebrate lineages with different hearing frequency ranges, humans lie between the low-frequency hearing (1 kHz) of fish and amphibians and the high-frequency hearing (100 kHz) of bats and dolphins. Little is known about the mechanism underlying such a striking difference in the limits of...

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Main Authors: Zhongying Wang, Qingping Ma, Jiawen Lu, Xiaochen Cui, Haifeng Chen, Hao Wu, Zhiwu Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.638530/full