Effect of Temperature on the Plasticity of Peripheral Hearing Sensitivity to Airborne Sound in the Male Red-Eared Slider Trachemys scripta elegans
Chelonians are considered the least vocally active group of extant reptiles and known as “low-frequency specialists” with a hearing range of <1.0 kHz. As they are ectothermic organisms, most of their physiological and metabolic processes are affected by temperature, which may include the audi...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.856660/full |