... to electric sources, which led to the discovery of electroreception ( Shackelford, 1941 ) and was later characterized as a ‘field line-tracking’ behavior ( Davis and Hopkins, 1988 ; Hopkins et al., 1997 ; Westby, 1974 ). The experiments were carried out during the summer months, after fish had adapted...

... a single parameter in the stimulus waveform. The finding of waveform distortion sensitivity is relevant because it may contribute to: (a) enhance electroreceptive range in the peripheral ‘electrosensory field’, (b) a better identification of living prey at the ‘foveal electrosensory field’ and (c) detect...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016 Summary: Differences in the sensory system that mediates electric communication correlate with differences in social behavior between two sympatric species of African mormyrid fishes. Electroreception Animal communication Sensory processing Sensory ecology...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 electric organ discharge electroreception ion channel regulation molecular evolution weakly electric fish markham@ou.edu Competing interests No competing interests declared. 2 11 2012 7 1 2013 Most recently, a number...

...Clare V. H. Baker; Melinda S. Modrell; J. Andrew Gillis; Rüdiger Krahe; Eric Fortune Summary Electroreception is an ancient vertebrate sense with a fascinating evolutionary history involving multiple losses as well as independent evolution at least twice within teleosts. We review the phylogenetic...

... of a biotic nature – imposed by electroreceptive predators, reproductive interference from heterospecific congeners, and sexual selection – may be important sources of diversifying selection on Gymnotus signals. The integration of data from multiple fields is beginning to provide us with a holistic view...

... a population code, in which duration is reflected in the population of responding knollenorgans. * Author for correspondence ( carlson.bruce@wustl.edu ) 22 11 2011 24 3 2012 © 2012. 2012 mormyrid weakly electric fish duration tuning electroreception temporal coding peripheral...

... sensory volume is irrelevant. We varied sensory information during a refuge-tracking task by changing illumination (vision) and conductivity (electroreception). The gain between refuge movement stimuli and fish tracking responses was functionally identical across all sensory conditions. However...

... for correspondence ( kent.dunlap@trincoll.edu ) 9 3 2010 © 2010. 2010 electrocommunication electric fish Apteronotus electroreception interspecific communication In many species, sensory systems are tuned to be most sensitive to particular spectral or temporal features of its species...

... electroreceptive species can do, but sufficiently low for them to use in navigation or prey and predator detection. This finding challenges the current view of the sensory world of aquatic invertebrates and has implications for the evolution of this ability. * Author for correspondence ( d.macmillan...

... elasmobranch electroreception prey detection Urobatis halleri Myliobatis californica Pteroplatytrygon violacea The first paper in this two part series reported relationships of form and function of the mechanosensory lateral line canal system in three stingray species; in the present study...

... electroreception paddlefish mesencephalic tectum single unit Electroreception is one of the ancestral vertebrate senses and is used by a variety of aquatic animals. It is important for prey detection and orientation in nearly all non-teleost bony and cartilaginous fishes, in some groups of teleosts...

... secondary neurons that adjust the principal neurons'sensitivity to afferent inputs. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: Yarom@vms.huji.ac.il ) 16 5 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 dorsal-octavolateral nucleus electrophysiology electroreception shark synaptic...

...-responsiveness window,we propose that the described cellular mechanisms allow fish streaming self-generated images. 5 1 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 intrinsic properties electroreception time coding low-responsiveness window onset neuron electric fish...

...Brandon R. Brown SUMMARY Most biological sensory systems benefit from multiple sensors. Elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays) possess an array of electroreceptive organs that facilitate prey location, mate location and navigation. Here, the perceived electrosensory landscape for an elasmobranch...

...DAVID BODZNICK; JOHN C. MONTGOMERY Elasmobranch fishes have an electroreceptive system which they use for prey detection and orientation. Sensory inputs in this system are corrupted by a form of reafference generated by the animal's own ventilation. However, we show here that in the carpet shark...

..., Middletown, CT 06457, USA. Present address: Department of Zoology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 23 6 1992 © 1992 by Company of Biologists 1992 elasmobranch electroreception noise suppression reafference medulla Raja erinacea J. exp. Biol. 171, 107-125 (1992) 1 0...

...BERND KRAMER; BRUNHILDE OTTO Eigenmannia lineata is a tropical South American gymnotiform fish that is both electrogenic and electroreceptive. Its electric organ generates a constant-frequency wave discharge (EOD) that is sexually dimorphic in waveform and harmonic content. Eigenmannia...