Electrical Perception and Communication

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 813-831

  Hopkins, C D ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Electric organ; Electric organ discharge; Electrocyte; Electrogenesis; Electroreceptor; Gymnarchus; Gymnotid; Gymnotiform; Jamming avoidance response; Knollenorgan; Mormyrid; Mormyriform; Mormyromast; Sequence of pulse intervals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951486737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.01827-1     Document Type: Chapter

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