The ecology of electricity and electroreception [PDF]
Biological Reviews, Volume 97, Issue 1, Page 383-413, February 2022., 2021 ABSTRACT Electricity, the interaction between electrically charged objects, is widely known to be fundamental to the functioning of living systems. However, this appreciation has largely been restricted to the scale of atoms, molecules, and cells. By contrast, the role of electricity at the ecological scale has historically been largely neglected ...
Sam J. England, Daniel Robert
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Modeling the Sequential Pattern Variability of the Electromotor Command System of Pulse Electric Fish [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2022 Mormyridae, a family of weakly electric fish, use electric pulses for communication and for extracting information from the environment (active electroreception). The electromotor system controls the timing of pulse generation.
Angel Lareo +2 more
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The Astonishing Behavior of Electric Eels [PDF]
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2019 The remarkable physiology of the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) made it one of the first model species in science. It was pivotal for understanding animal electricity in the 1700s, was investigated by Humboldt and Faraday in the 1800s, was ...
Kenneth C. Catania
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Passive electroreception in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): implication for micro- and large-scale orientation. [PDF]
J Exp Biol, 2023 Hüttner T +3 more
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Comparable ages for the independent origins of electrogenesis in African and South American weakly electric fishes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 One of the most remarkable examples of convergent evolution among vertebrates is illustrated by the independent origins of an active electric sense in South American and African weakly electric fishes, the Gymnotiformes and Mormyroidea, respectively ...
Sébastien Lavoué +5 more
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Predation and Crypsis in the Evolution of Electric Signaling in Weakly Electric Fishes [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Eavesdropping by electroreceptive predators poses a conflict for weakly electric fish, which depend on their Electric Organ Discharge (EOD) signals both for navigation and communication in the dark.
Philip K. Stoddard +3 more
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Behavioral and anatomical evidence for electroreception in the bottlenose dolphin (
The Anatomical Record, Volume 305, Issue 3, Page 592-608, March 2022., 2021 Abstract In the order of cetacean, the ability to detect bioelectric fields has, up to now, only been demonstrated in the Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) and is suggested to facilitate benthic feeding. As this foraging strategy has also been reported for bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), we studied electroreception in this species by ...
Tim Hüttner +4 more
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Opposing roles for Bmp signalling during the development of electrosensory lateral line organs [PDF]
eLifeThe lateral line system enables fishes and aquatic-stage amphibians to detect local water movement via mechanosensory hair cells in neuromasts, and many species to detect weak electric fields via electroreceptors (modified hair cells) in ampullary organs.
Alexander S Campbell +7 more
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Molecular tuning of electroreception in sharks and skates [PDF]
Nature, 2018 Ancient cartilaginous vertebrates, such as sharks, skates and rays, possess specialized electrosensory organs that detect weak electric fields and relay this information to the central nervous system1-4. Sharks exploit this sensory modality for predation, whereas skates may also use it to detect signals from conspecifics 5 .
Nicholas W. Bellono +2 more
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Frequency-dependent avoidance movement of glass catfish in response to sinusoidal electrical stimulation and associated spiking patterns of electroreceptors [PDF]
Biology Open, 2023 Yu Adachi, Katsumi Tateno
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