[1].Morphological Correlates of the Phonatory Organ in an Ultrasonically Phonating Frog[J].Asian Herpetological Research,2012,3(3):240-251.[doi:10.3724/SP.J.1245.2012.00240]
　Rongchuan XIONG,,et al.Morphological Correlates of the Phonatory Organ in an Ultrasonically Phonating Frog[J].Asian Herpetological Research(AHR),2012,3(3):240-251.[doi:10.3724/SP.J.1245.2012.00240]
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Asian Herpetological Research[ISSN:2095-0357/CN:51-1735/Q]

卷:
3
期数:
2012年3期
页码:
240-251
栏目:
Original Article
出版日期:
2012-09-25

文章信息/Info

Title:
Morphological Correlates of the Phonatory Organ in an Ultrasonically Phonating Frog
文章编号:
AHR-2011-042
Author(s):
Rongchuan XIONG1;  2;  3;  4;  Bin WANG1;  Yuhan WU1;  2 and Jianping JIANG1*
1 Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China
2 Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3 College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, China
4 Department of Life Science, Liupanshui Normal College, Liupanshui 553004, Guizhou, China
Keywords:
concave-eared torrent frog;  comparative anatomy;  ultrasonic phonation;  fundamental frequency
DOI:
10.3724/SP.J.1245.2012.00240
Abstract:
The concave-eared torrent frog (Odorrana tormota) is the first species of tailless amphibian that was evidenced to phonate and detect ultrasounds. We employed anatomic and histological methods to examine the phonatory organs, including the floor of the buccal cavity, vocal cords and glottis, of O. tormota and its sympatric species including O. graminea, O. schmackeri, and Amolops wuyiensis with different fundamental frequencies, and Pelophylax nigromaculatus as a control. Our results reveal that O. tormota possesses specialized phonatory organ structures, with thinner vocal cords modulated by a moderately stronger muscular mastoideus between the medial vocal cords and the lateral cricoid cartilages, and more elastic mouth floor to likely supply faster air stream which could make the vocal cords vibrate at higher frequencies, larger relative distance between the two muscles m. intermandibulares (RDMI), and higher nucleus density of m. intermandibularis (NDMI) and m. geniohyoideus (NDMG). The results of Pearson’s correlation tests between the mean values of the above measurements and the fundamental frequencies from the five species imply that all the specialized phonatory organ structures mentioned above might be favored by higher frequency of phonation of O. tormota.

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