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Electrosensory optimization to conspecific phasic signals for mating
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The match between primary afferent frequency sensitivity and the ventilatory phasic signals produced by conspecifics indicates that the electrosensory system serves an important biological function in the social behavior of elasmobranchs.About:
This article is published in Neuroscience Letters.The article was published on 1995-12-29. It has received 124 citations till now.read more
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A review of elasmobranch reproductive behavior with a case study on the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum
TL;DR: A detailed ‘case history’ of nurse shark reproductive behavior is presented that may be used as a template for future work on Shark reproductive behavior of other species.
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Electroreception in juvenile scalloped hammerhead and sandbar sharks
TL;DR: Although the sphyrnid head morphology does not appear to confer a greater sensitivity to prey-simulating dipole electric fields, it does provide a greater lateral search area, which may increase the probability of prey encounter, and enhanced maneuverability, which might aid in prey capture.
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Communication in troubled waters: responses of fish communication systems to changing environments
Inke van der Sluijs,Suzanne M. Gray,Maria Clara Pessoa Amorim,Iain Barber,Ulrika Candolin,Andrew P. Hendry,Ruediger Krahe,Martine E. Maan,Martine E. Maan,Anne Christine Utne-Palm,Hans-Joachim Wagner,Bob B. M. Wong +11 more
TL;DR: Current research on different communication systems (visual, chemical, acoustic, electric) and the state of knowledge of how complex systems respond to environmental stressors using fish as a model are discussed and an urgent need for a better understanding of the evolutionary consequences of changes in communication systems on fish diversity is seen.
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Annual Cycles of Steroid Hormone Production, Gonad Development, and Reproductive Behavior in the Atlantic Stingray
TL;DR: It is proposed that the production of male androgens across the full seven-month preovulatory mating period promotes their aggressive reproductive behavior and drives the protracted mating season of this species.
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Nonlinear foraging response of a large marine predator to benthic prey: eagle ray pits and bivalves in a New Zealand sandflat
Anson H. Hines,Robert B. Whitlatch,Simon F. Thrush,Judi E. Hewitt,Vonda J. Cummings,Paul K. Dayton,Pierre Legendre +6 more
TL;DR: Eagle rays exhibited a nonlinear segmented response to prey density, in which ray foraging activity was low and independent of prey density at low Macomona densities, while foraging increased sharply above a threshold density of prey but did not reach satiation at the highest prey densities in the authors' site.
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Sensory biology of aquatic animals
TL;DR: This volume constitutes a series of invited chapters based on presentations given at an International Conference on the Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals held June 24-28, 1985 at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida.
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The Electric Sense of Sharks and Rays
TL;DR: The experiments described demonstrate clearly that the shark Scyliorhinus canicula and the ray Raja clavata make a biologically significant use of their electrical sensitivity and are justified in accrediting the animals with an electric sense and in designating the ampullae of Lorenzini as electroreceptors.
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The Detection of Electric Fields from Inanimate and Animate Sources Other Than Electric Organs
TL;DR: To establish and analyze this role, a basic knowledge of the natural electric fields and the information they provide is an essential prerequisite and whether the information is of biological significance to electrosensitive animals must be determined by appropriate behavioral experiments.