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Journal of Experimental Biology 38,747-757 (1961)
Published by Company of Biologists 1961

Visco-Elastic Properties of the Tunica Externa of the Swimbladder in Cyprinidae

R. MCN. ALEXANDER 1

1 Department of Zoology, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Caernarvonshire

1. The tunica externa of the anterior sac of the swimbladder in Cyprinidae is highly extensible, but a large part of its compliance is associated with retardation times greater than one second. The compliance is only partly reversible.

2. The significance of these properties is discussed in relation to a possible high-pass frequency filter for the Weberian apparatus.

Submitted on May 12, 1961






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