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4193 The Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 4193-4202 Published by The Company of Biologists 2006 doi:10.1242/jeb.02490

Anatomical and functional recovery of the goldfish (Carassius auratus) ear following noise exposure Michael E. Smith1,2,*,†, Allison B. Coffin1,†,‡, Diane L. Miller1 and Arthur N. Popper1 1

Department of Biology and Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA and 2Department of Biology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42104, USA *Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) † These authors contributed equally to this work ‡ Present address: Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada

Accepted 15 August 2006 Summary significantly (mean TTS