spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


spacer gif
     Home     Help     Feedback     Subscriptions     Archive     Search     Table of Contents    

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Pettigrew, J. D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Pettigrew, J. D.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 202, Issue 10 1447-1454, Copyright © 1999 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Electroreception in monotremes

JD Pettigrew
Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre, Ritchie Laboratories, Research Road, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia. j.pettigrew@vthrc.uq.edu.au

I will briefly review the history of the bill sense of the platypus, a sophisticated combination of electroreception and mechanoreception that coordinates information about aquatic prey provided from the bill skin mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors, and provide an evolutionary account of electroreception in the three extant species of monotreme (and what can be inferred of their ancestors). Electroreception in monotremes is compared and contrasted with the extensive body of work on electric fish, and an account of the central processing of mechanoreceptive and electroreceptive input in the somatosensory neocortex of the platypus, where sophisticated calculations seem to enable a complete three-dimensional fix on prey, is given.
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USAHome page
T. Rowe, T. H. Rich, P. Vickers-Rich, M. Springer, and M. O. Woodburne
The oldest platypus and its bearing on divergence timing of the platypus and echidna clades
PNAS, January 29, 2008; 105(4): 1238 - 1242.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USAHome page
K. C. Catania, J. F. Hare, and K. L. Campbell
Water shrews detect movement, shape, and smell to find prey underwater
PNAS, January 15, 2008; 105(2): 571 - 576.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Mol Biol EvolHome page
W. E. Grus, P. Shi, and J. Zhang
Largest Vertebrate Vomeronasal Type 1 Receptor Gene Repertoire in the Semiaquatic Platypus
Mol. Biol. Evol., October 1, 2007; 24(10): 2153 - 2157.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Biol. Bull.Home page
P. Steullet, D. H. Edwards, and C. D. Derby
An Electric Sense in Crayfish?
Biol. Bull., August 1, 2007; 213(1): 16 - 20.
[Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 J. Exp. Biol.Home page
M. H. Hofmann, B. Chagnaud, and L. A. Wilkens
Response properties of electrosensory afferent fibers and secondary brain stem neurons in the paddlefish
J. Exp. Biol., November 15, 2005; 208(22): 4213 - 4222.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


© The Company of Biologists Ltd 1999