Electroreception
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Electroreception
(Wiley series in neurobiology)
Wiley, c1986
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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Ill. on lining paper
Includes bibliographies and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents recent findings in the research on modality of animal perception, particularly the ability to sense feeble electrical fields. Included is a new treatment of electric organs and their control, an examination of receptors and their ionic mechanisms, and discussion of regeneration of the spinal cord. The book uses electric fish as models, and systematically treats the principal taxa of animals exhibiting electroreception, particularly in respect to central anatomy and physiology. The subject of evolution is covered thoroughly throughout the book.
Table of Contents
Partial table of contents: Electric Organs Revisited: Evolution of a Vertebrate Communications and Orientation Organ (A. Bass). Central Control of the Electric Organ Discharge in Weakly Electric Fish (J. Dye & J. Meyer). The Electroreceptive Periphery (H. Zakon). Ionic Mechanisms and Pharmacology of Electroreceptors (M. Bennett & S. Obara). Regeneration of Central Nervous System Structures: Apteronotus Spinal Cord as a Model System (S. Waxman & M. Anderson). Electroreception in Cyclostomes. (M. Ronan). Electroreception in Chrondrichthyes: Central Anatomy and Physiology (D. Bodznick & R. Boord). Electroreception in Nonteleost Bony Fishes (R. Northcutt). Electroreception in Catfish: Behavior, Annatomy, and Electrophysiology (T. Finger).
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