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- Electroreception and electrogenesis are the closely related biological abilities to perceive electrical stimuli and to generate electric fields. Both are...
- capabilities. As this characteristic occurred after the prior loss of electroreception among the subclass Neopterygii after having been present in the common...
- vertebrates, electroreception is an ancestral trait, meaning that it was present in their last common ancestor. This form of ancestral electroreception is called...
- the mechanosensory lateral line organs of early vertebrates. P****ive electroreception using ampullae is an ancestral trait in the vertebrates, meaning that...
- from the Guiana dolphin) known to have a sense of electroreception, and the platypus's electroreception is the most sensitive of any monotreme. Feeding...
- into the evolution of a number of monotreme traits, such as venom and electroreception, as well as showing some new unique features, such as monotremes possessing...
- Hans Lissmann discovered electroreception in 1950 through his observations of Gymnarchus niloticus....
- Acipenseriformes and several other groups of vertebrates, engage in p****ive electroreception (the sensing of external electric fields) using structures called ampullae...
- sense other than vision. He demonstrated that it could locate prey by electroreception, making it the first fish known to have this ability. The fish is considered...
- other fish by their elongated rostra, which are thought to enhance electroreception to detect prey. Paddlefish have been referred to as "primitive fish"...