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Adaptive shift of active electroreception in weakly electric fish for troglobitic life [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The adaptive-shift hypothesis for the evolution of cave-dwelling species posits that ancestor species in surface habitats had exaptations for subterranean life that were exploited when individuals invaded caves.
D. Soares +3 more
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Electroreception in monotremes [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 1999 ABSTRACT I will briefly review the history of the bill sense of the platypus, a sophisticated combination of electroreception and mechanoreception that coordinates information about aquatic prey provided from the bill skin mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors, and provide an evolutionary account of electroreception in the three extant ...
John D. Pettigrew
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The bee, the flower, and the electric field: electric ecology and aerial electroreception [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Physiology, 2017 Bees and flowering plants have a long-standing and remarkable co-evolutionary history. Flowers and bees evolved traits that enable pollination, a process that is as important to plants as it is for pollinating insects.
D. Clarke, Erica L. Morley, D. Robert
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Prey can detect predators via electroreception in air [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaSignificance Our study reveals the finding that some terrestrial animals can detect the electric field emanating from their electrostatically charged predators and use this sense to initiate defensive behaviors.
Sam J. England, Daniel Robert
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Current BiologyElectroreception is the capacity of living organisms to detect the presence of electricity, usually studied in the aquatic environment. Electroreception in air, however, has received much less attention until relatively recently.
D. Robert
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Excitatory and inhibitory synaptic mechanisms at the first stage of integration in the electroreception system of the shark [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2014 High impulse rate in afferent nerves is a common feature in many sensory systems that serve to accommodate a wide dynamic range. However, the first stage of integration should be endowed with specific properties that enable efficient handling of the ...
N. Rotem +3 more
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Waveform Sensors: The Next Challenge in Biomimetic Electroreception [PDF]
, 2017 The interest in developing bioinspired electric sensors increased after the rising use of electric fields as image carriers in underwater robots and medical devices using artificial electroreception (electrotomography and electric catheterism).
A. Cattaneo, A. Caputi, A. Pereira
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Comparative cranial morphology in living and extinct platypuses: Feeding behavior, electroreception, and loss of teeth [PDF]
Science Advances, 2016 Comparative morphology in living and extinct platypuses revealed that there was a shift in feeding behavior and sensory efficiency. The modern platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, has an eye structure similar to aquatic mammals; however, platypuses also ...
M. Asahara +4 more
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Electroreception, electrogenesis and electric signal evolution. [PDF]
Journal of Fish Biology, 2019 Electroreception, the capacity to detect external underwater electric fields with specialised receptors, is a phylogenetically widespread sensory modality in fishes and amphibians. In passive electroreception, a capacity possessed by c.
W. G. Crampton
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ELECTRORECEPTION AKIN TO TOUCH [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2012 ![Figure][1] Sheltering under rafts of camalote leaves floating along South American rivers, Gymnotus omarorum fish hunt their prey amongst the lilies' roots. However, these predators do not rely on vision when trapping their victims.
Kathryn Knight
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