@article{2c65c19bc93a413ea615fb54248d276a,
title = "Functional, Morphological, and Evolutionary Characterization of Hearing in Subterranean, Eusocial African Mole-Rats",
abstract = "Pyott et al. attribute comparatively poor hearing in African naked and Damaraland mole-rats to lack of cochlear amplification, disrupted hair bundles, and hair bundle proteins bearing deafness-associated amino acid substitutions. Positive selection in some bundle proteins suggests altered hearing is adaptive to subterranean and eusocial lifestyles.",
keywords = "adaptive, auditory outer hair cells, cochlea, cochlear amplifier, deafness, evolution, hair bundle, prestin, selection, stereocilia",
author = "Pyott, {Sonja J.} and {van Tuinen}, Marcel and Screven, {Laurel A.} and Schrode, {Katrina M.} and Bai, {Jun Ping} and Barone, {Catherine M.} and Price, {Steven D.} and Anna Lysakowski and Maxwell Sanderford and Sudhir Kumar and Joseph Santos-Sacchi and Lauer, {Amanda M.} and Park, {Thomas J.}",
note = "Funding Information: The project was supported by grants from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) to S.J.P.; the NSF (USA) to T.J.P. (grant 1655494 ) and to K.M.S. and L.A.S. (NRSA postdoctoral fellowships); the NIH (USA) to S.K. ( R01-HG008146 and GM0126567 ), to J.S.-S. ( R01-DC016318 and R01-DC008130 ), to A.M.L. ( R01-DC017620 and RO1-DC012347 ); and the David M. Rubenstein Fund for Hearing Research (USA) to A.M.L. We acknowledge Paul A. Fuchs for training support (NIH T32-DC000032) and Dr. Elizabeth Brittan-Powell for technical support. ",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.035",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "30",
pages = "4329--4341.e4",
journal = "Current Biology",
issn = "0960-9822",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "22",
}