A UC Davis study confirms Putah Creek origin salmon for first time, marking a win for creek restoration and wild salmon, and ...

We humans have tiny ear stones (otoconia), whose primary function is to maintain balance, but fish otoliths are also crucial for hearing, as well as featuring specific properties that make them ...

Kevin Pangle, Ph.D, Director of the CMU Biological Station and the Department of Biology faculty member, has been researching fish in the Great Lakes for over 15 years.

If pike are moving between watersheds, you can pick it up by analyzing strontium in the otoliths." The northern pike's invasion threatens Alaska's delicate aquatic ecosystems. Since the 1950s ...

Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) have been used to assess otolith function in clinics worldwide. However, there are accumulating evidence suggesting that the clinically used sound stimuli ...

Perception of the spatial vertical is important for maintaining and stabilizing vertical posture during body motion. The velocity storage pathway of vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), which integrates ...