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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finger, Stanley
Other Authors: Piccolino, Marco
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 470 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199710577
0199710570
9780199897087
0199897085