Hair cell force generation does not amplify or tune vibrations within the chicken basilar papilla

The avian auditory papilla has many similarities to the mammalian cochlea but whether force generation by hair cells amplifies the travelling wave, as it does in mammals, remains unknown. Here the authors show that the chicken basilar papilla does not have a ‘cochlear amplifier’ and that sharp frequ...

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Main Authors: Anping Xia, Xiaofang Liu, Patrick D. Raphael, Brian E. Applegate, John S. Oghalai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13133