Discusses the distribution and evolution of electroreception, and reception by ampullary and
tuberous systems in fish. An outline of the types of electroreceptors is presented. Behavioral …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

This concise review focuses on recent advances in the function and mechanism of
electroreceptive systems in lower aquatic vertebrates and elucidates the sophisticated …

By mimicking tropical rainy season conditions in aquaria, we stimulated two species of
gymnotoid electric fish, Eigenmannia virescens and Apteronotus leptorhynchus, to spawn in …

Parental care occurs in a diversity of fishes, but predominantly among freshwater groups.
Among the approximately 422 families of bony fishes (Osteichthyes), 89 are presently known …

Electroreceptive neurons in the posterior branch of the anterior lateral line nerve of three
species of electric fish (Gymnotoidei): Sternopygus macrums, Eigenmannia virescens, and …

This booklet, together with the following two,-which are well under way and will succeed it at
intervals of, we hope, no more than six months, sets the stage for a new editorial enterprise …

South American weakly electric fish produce a variety of electric organ discharge (EOD)
amplitude and frequency modulations including chirps or rapid increases in EOD frequency …

Some fishes test their environment by generating electric fields outside their bodies (man's
first contact with electricity). To send and receive electric signals, one's own or those from a …

Steroid hormones influence the electrical activity of many neurons and effectors by
regulating the transcription of their ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors, or by …