Neuroethology and life history adaptations of the elasmobranch electric sense.
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...Male stingrays were shown to use their electrosense to detect and locate buried females, whereas females used their sense to locate other females to refuge with them (Tricas et al. 1995; Sisneros and Tricas 2002)....
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...Unreceptive female round stingrays also use electroreception to find each other, as they are found buried in groups for refuge late in themating season (Sisneros and Tricas, 2002; Tricas et al., 1995)....
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...sabina exhibit a 9month protracted mating season from August through April [36] during which male stingrays exhibit distinct reproductive activities associated with varying serum androgen levels [66]....
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...eglanteria) [55], and 1–5 Hz in the little skate (R....
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...This behavior results in the streaming of water from one horn of the egg case at velocities of approximately 7 cm s 1 [55] and creates a localized vortex near the egg which may provide olfactory, electrosensory and mechanosensory cues that facilitate the detection and location of the skate by potential predators....
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...Work on the clearnose skate (Raja eglanteria) shows that the electrosensory system of egg-encapsulated embryonic skates is well suited to detect potential egg predators [55]....
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...Prey detection [28,63] Social communication [13,14,55] Detection of mates [65] Detection of predators [55]...
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...Skate electric organs also differ in length among species and may be sexually dimorphic [26,27]....
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