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- secondarily lost their ampullae of Lorenzini, but other non-homologous electroreceptors have repeatedly evolved, including in two groups of mammals, the monotremes...
- The front part of the olm's head carries sensitive chemo-, mechano-, and electroreceptors....
- Ampullae of Lorenzini (sg.: ampulla) are electroreceptors, sense organs able to detect electric fields. They form a network of mucus-filled pores in the...
- aid of electron microscopy that paddlefish rostrums are covered in electroreceptors called ampullae. These ampullae are densely packed within star-shaped...
- bioelectrogenesis. They are unique among electric fish in not possessing electroreceptors, meaning that they do not use an electric sense to locate prey. Stargazers...
- indeed p****ive ampullary-type electroreceptors used by American paddlefish to detect plankton. Clusters of electroreceptors also cover the head and operculum...
- S. P. & Hart, N. S. Morphology and distribution of the ampullary electroreceptors in wobbegong sharks: implications for feeding behaviour. Mar Biol 158...
- insects to eat. This organ, called the Schnauzenorgan, is covered in electroreceptors, as is much of the rest of its body. The elephantnose uses a weak electric...
- und Ontogonie (in German). 42: 91–148. Bennett, M. V. L. (1965). "Electroreceptors in mormyrids". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology...
- adult amphibians. Many aquatic salamanders and some caecilians possess electroreceptors called ampullary organs (completely absent in anurans), that allow...