Publication Date:
1980-02-01
Description:
Behavioral and neurophysiological experiments and anatomical work indicate that the ampullar structures on the head of fish of the subclass Holocephali are sense organs responsive to weak electric fields and are functionally and structurally homologous to the ampullae of Lorenzini in elasmobranchs. It is concluded that, as in elasmobranchs, these organs are used to detect bioelectric and other natural electric phenomena in the environment.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fields, R D -- Lange, G D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Feb 1;207(4430):547-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7352266" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Action Potentials
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Animals
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Biological Evolution
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Electric Stimulation
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Escape Reaction/physiology
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Evoked Potentials
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Fishes/genetics/*physiology
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Sensory Receptor Cells/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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