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Electric Field Detection in Sawfish and Shovelnose Rays
Type: Text
Year: 2012, 2012
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Collin, Shaun P., Hart, Nathan S., Kajiura, Stephen M., Laudet, Vincent, Squire, Lyle, Jr., Tibbetts, Ian R., Wueringer, Barbara E.
Description: In the aquatic environment, living organisms emit weak dipole electric fields, which spread in the surrounding water.
Elasmobranchs detect these dipole electric fields with their highly sensitive electroreceptors, the ampullae of Lorenzini.
Freshwater sawfish, Pristis microdon, and two species of shovelnose rays, Glaucostegus typus and Aptychotrema rostrata were
tested for their reactions… more
Full Text: Electric Field Detection in Sawfish and Shovelnose Rays Barbara E. Wueringer1,2*, Lyle Squire Jnr3, Stephen M. Kajiura4, Ian R. Tibbetts5, Nathan S. Hart4, Shaun P. Collin1,4,6 1 The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences, Brisbane, …