From morphology to neural information: The electric sense of the skate

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1083-1096

  Camperi, Marcelo ^a   Tricas, Timothy C ^b,c   Brown, Brandon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

DIPOLE SOURCES; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; ELECTRIC SIGNAL; ELECTROSENSORS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MORPHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; NEURAL INFORMATION; SENSOR INFRASTRUCTURE; SENSORY SYSTEM; UNIQUE MORPHOLOGIES;

MORPHOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PREY; SENSORY SYSTEM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC ORGAN; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SENSE ORGAN; SKATES (FISH);

BATOIDEA; CHONDRICHTHYES;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC ORGAN; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SENSE ORGANS; SKATES (FISH);

EID: 34347329330     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030113     Document Type: Article

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