Weakly electric fish: Behavior, neurobiology, and neuroendocrinology

Hormones, Brain and Behavior Online

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 611-639

  Zakon, H H ^a   Smith, G T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine vasotocin (AVT); Electric organ; Electric organ discharges (EODs); Electrocommunication; Electrocytes; Electrolocation; Electromotoneurons; Gymnotiformes; Mormyriformes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884765811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008088783-8.00017-6     Document Type: Chapter

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