Electrosensitive spatial vectors in elasmobranch fishes: Implications for source localization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rivera Vicente, Ariel C ^a,b   Sewell, Josiah ^a,b   Tricas, Timothy C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASMOBRANCHII; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREY SELECTION; SHARK; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

CARCHARHINUS PLUMBEUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; DASYATIS LATUS; PISCES; SPHYRNA LEWINI; SPHYRNIDAE;

ANIMALS; ELASMOBRANCHII; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79251561601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016008     Document Type: Article

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