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The coelacanth rostral organ is a unique low-resolution electro-detector that facilitates the feeding strike
Type: Text
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Berquist, Rachel M., Frank, Lawrence R., Galinsky, Vitaly L., Kajiura, Stephen M.
Description: The cartilaginous and non-neopterygian bony fishes have an electric sense typically comprised of hundreds
or thousands of sensory canals distributed in broad clusters over the head. This morphology facilitates
neural encoding of local electric field intensity, orientation, and polarity, used for determining the position
of nearby prey. The coelacanth rostral organ electric sense, however, is… more
Full Text: OPEN SUBJECT AREAS: ICHTHYOLOGY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING Received 5 September 2014 Accepted 3 February 2015 Published 11 March 2015 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to R.M.B. (rberquist@ ucsd.edu) The coelacanth rostral …