Editors:
- Constitutes an important contemporary reference work on the lateral line system
- A natural compliment to a number of books in the SHAR series including those edited by Webb, Dallos, and Eatock
- Collects two decades of research into the lateral line
Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (SHAR, volume 48)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The Lateral Line System provides an overview of the key concepts and issues surrounding the development, evolution, neurobiology, and function of the lateral line, a fascinating yet somewhat enigmatic flow-sensing system. The book examines the historical precedence for linking the auditory and lateral line systems, its structure and development, use of the lateral line system of zebrafish as a model system, physical principles governing the response properties of the lateral line, the behavioral relevance of this sensory system to the lives of fish, and an examination of how this information is shaped and encoded by the peripheral and central nervous systems.
Contents
The Gems of the Past: A Brief History of Lateral Line Research in the Context of the Hearing Sciences - Sheryl Coombs and Horst Bleckmann
Morphological Diversity, Development, and Evolution of the Mechanosensory Lateral Line System - Jacqueline F. Webb
The Hydrodynamic of Flow Stimuli - Matthew J. McHenry and James C. Liao
The Biophysics of the Fish Lateral Line - Sietse M. van Netten and Matthew J. McHenry
Sensory Ecology and Neuroethology of the Lateral Line - John Montgomery, Horst Bleckmann, and Sheryl Coombs
Information Encoding and Processing by the Peripheral Lateral Line System - Boris Philippe Chagnaud and Sheryl Coombs
The Central Nervous Organization of the Lateral Line System - Mario F. Wullimann and Benedikt Grothe
Central Processing of Lateral Line Information - Horst Bleckmann and Joachim Mogdans
Functional Overlap and Nonoverlap Between Lateral Line and Auditory Systems - Christopher B. Braun and Olav Sand
The Hearing Loss, Protection, and Regeneration in the Larval Zebrafish Lateral Line - Allison B. Coffin, Heather Brignull, David W. Raible, and Edwin WRubel
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This is an outstanding neurophysiology textbook on the electrosensory, mechanosensory, and lateral line systems (LLS)_ of teleost and non-teleost fishes. … I recommend this book for biologists, fish researchers of cartilaginous and bony fish species, neurophysiologists, and for students interested in fish.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, April, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Biological Sciences and JP Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind and Behavior, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA
Sheryl Coombs
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University of Bonn, Institute of Zoology, Bonn, Germany
Horst Bleckmann
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Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA
Richard R. Fay
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Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Arthur N. Popper
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Lateral Line System
Editors: Sheryl Coombs, Horst Bleckmann, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper
Series Title: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8851-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8850-7Published: 24 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5165-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8851-4Published: 23 October 2013
Series ISSN: 0947-2657
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1897
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 347
Number of Illustrations: 69 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurology