Electric field detection in sawfish and shovelnose rays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wueringer, Barbara E ^a,b   Jnr, Lyle Squire ^c   Kajiura, Stephen M ^d   Tibbetts, Ian R ^a   Hart, Nathan S ^d   Collin, Shaun P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Cairns Marine   (Australia)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; APTYCHOTREMA ROSTRATA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASMOBRANCH; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRORECEPTOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLAUCOSTEGUS TYPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRISTIS MICRODON; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELASMOBRANCHII; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION;

APTYCHOTREMA ROSTRATA; ELASMOBRANCHII; PRISTIDAE; PRISTIS MICRODON;

EID: 84864464458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041605     Document Type: Article

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