Electroreception: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Comprehensive coverage of electroreceptors and various aspects of electroreception is provided in Theodore H. Bullock et al. (eds.), Electroreception (2005). Works with information on electroreception in specific groups of animals include Gerhard von der Emde, Joachim Mogdans, and B.G. Kapoor (eds.), The Senses of Fish: Adaptations for the Reception of Natural Stimuli (2004); and Ken Ashwell, Neurobiology of Monotremes: Brain Evolution in Our Distant Mammalian Cousins (2013).

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