Behavioral Neuroscience Summers

text:Kandel pages back to Syllabus lecture on Electric Fish lecture on Afferent Circuit end Acronyms/Abbreviations

Jamming

Sensory Receptors
1) Ampullary Electrosensory Receptors
RC = receptor cell
ampullary receptor has a jelly-filled canal leading to the skin surface
2) Tuberous Electrosensory Receptors
n= nerve
the tuberous recepor has a loose plug of epithelial cells over the receptor organ
3) Mormyromast Electroreceptor



Afferent Circuitry (in purple) Gating Circuitry in purple (NE) and green


Brainstem Afferent Targets



References on the WWW:
http://www.sbg.ac.at/ipk/avstudio/pierofun/ray/eod.htm

Electric Organ Discharge:
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/bionb420.07/aakhavan/MW1/EOD.html
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/electric_organ
http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/p_batteries.htm
http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/biology/electric_fish/electric_fish.html
http://www.use.hcn.com.au/portals/shared/subject.%60Electric%20Organ%60/home.html

Electroreception:
http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/sharklab/hammerheads/electroreception.htm
http://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/sharks_rays/rfl_dissection/
http://research.umbc.edu/~cole/electro.htm#info

Electric fish:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk3u/mk_lab/electric_fish_E.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A735004
Research of Dr. Harold Zakon @ http://www.utexas.edu/neuroscience/Neurobiology/HaroldZakon/research.html
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/animalphysiology/websites/2003/Wilson/Stunning.htm
http://www.gulfspecimen.org/SharksRays.html
Electric Rays: http://www.funkandwagnalls.com/encyclopedia/low/articles/r/r022000297f.html
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/expltx/eft/gulf/cspecies/lesserelectricray.htm
http://www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Narcin_brasil.htm
http://www.hammer-time.com/lesserray.htm
http://www.wgn.net/~fabio/gallery/gallery1.htm
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/electricray.html
http://www.gulfspecimen.org/Electric-Ray.html

Family of the elecrtric rays:
http://benthos.cox.miami.edu/reef/taxonomy/family71.html
http://reef.org/survey/family/71.htm

Marbled Electric Ray:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/marbledelectricray.html
http://www.mermaid1.demon.co.uk/body_creature9902.htm

Torpedo californica:
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/print.asp?inhab=510
http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/shark_profiles/torpediniformes.htm
http://saintbrendan.com/cdnmay/marinlf5.html
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Peray/Peray.html

Torpedo electric organ
http://www.heuserlab.wustl.edu/TorpedoEELink.html
http://www.csulb.edu/~zedmason/emprojects/MATHEW/mathew.html

Rays - what's that?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/rays/

Fish Species database: http://www.fishbase.org/search.cfm
Jamming Avoidance Response: