Signal cloaking by electric fish

BioScience

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 415-425

  Stoddard, Philip K ^a   Markham, Michael R ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogenerator; Electrogenesis; Electroreception; Gymnotiformes; Melanocortin

Indexed keywords

GYMNOTIFORMES; HYPOPOMIDAE;

EID: 44949132959     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/B580508     Document Type: Review

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