Intra- and Intersexual swim bladder dimorphisms in the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus): Implications of swim bladder proximity to the inner ear for sound pressure detection.

Autor: Mohr RA; Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195-1525., Whitchurch EA; Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195-1525., Anderson RD; Center for Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, 98101., Forlano PM; Department of Biology, Brooklyn College, and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, 11210., Fay RR; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543., Ketten DR; Boston University, Biomedical Engineering (Hearing Research Center) and Harvard Medical School, Otology and Laryngology, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115.; Biology Department, Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543., Cox TC; Center for Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, 98101.; Department of Pediatrics (Craniofacial Medicine), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195.; Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia., Sisneros JA; Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195-1525.; Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195.; Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Seattle, Washington, 98195.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of morphology [J Morphol] 2017 Nov; Vol. 278 (11), pp. 1458-1468. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Jul 10.
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20724
Abstrakt: The plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus, is a nocturnal marine teleost that uses social acoustic signals for communication during the breeding season. Nesting type I males produce multiharmonic advertisement calls by contracting their swim bladder sonic muscles to attract females for courtship and spawning while subsequently attracting cuckholding type II males. Here, we report intra- and intersexual dimorphisms of the swim bladder in a vocal teleost fish and detail the swim bladder dimorphisms in the three sexual phenotypes (females, type I and II males) of plainfin midshipman fish. Micro-computerized tomography revealed that females and type II males have prominent, horn-like rostral swim bladder extensions that project toward the inner ear end organs (saccule, lagena, and utricle). The rostral swim bladder extensions were longer, and the distance between these swim bladder extensions and each inner-ear end organ type was significantly shorter in both females and type II males compared to that in type I males. Our results revealed that the normalized swim bladder length of females and type II males was longer than that in type I males while there was no difference in normalized swim bladder width among the three sexual phenotypes. We predict that these intrasexual and intersexual differences in swim bladder morphology among midshipman sexual phenotypes will afford greater sound pressure sensitivity and higher frequency detection in females and type II males and facilitate the detection and localization of conspecifics in shallow water environments, like those in which midshipman breed and nest.
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