The shocking history of electric fishes : from ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology /
This title looks at how three kinds of strongly electric fishes became electrical, and how they helped to change the sciences and medicine. These fishes are the flat torpedo rays common to the Mediterranean, the electric catfishes of Africa, and an eel from South America.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This title looks at how three kinds of strongly electric fishes became electrical, and how they helped to change the sciences and medicine. These fishes are the flat torpedo rays common to the Mediterranean, the electric catfishes of Africa, and an eel from South America. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 470 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199710577 0199710570 9780199897087 0199897085 |