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Moortgat, Katherine Tina.

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Precision of pacemaking in a weakly electric fish: Behavior, physiology, and modeling.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Precision of pacemaking in a weakly electric fish: Behavior, physiology, and modeling./
作者:	Moortgat, Katherine Tina.
面頁冊數:	101 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: B, page: 1460.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-04B.
標題:	Biology, Neuroscience. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9926562
ISBN:	0599263377

Precision of pacemaking in a weakly electric fish: Behavior, physiology, and modeling.
Moortgat, Katherine Tina.

Precision of pacemaking in a weakly electric fish: Behavior, physiology, and modeling. - 101 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: B, page: 1460.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1999.

The most regular biological rhythm known is the electric organ discharge (EOD) of wave-type gymnotiforms, South American weakly electric fish. These fish produce continuously, day and night, the EOD, an oscillating electric dipole field that they use to electro-locate and electro-communicate. The fish's ability to electro-locate depends critically on measurements of the electric field phase and amplitude made at electroreceptors in its skin, and the precision of electrosensory information can be no better than that of the EOD. The extreme precision of the EOD and its command center, the medullary pacemaker nucleus (Pn), is the topic of this thesis.

ISBN: 0599263377Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017680
Biology, Neuroscience.

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520 $a The most regular biological rhythm known is the electric organ discharge (EOD) of wave-type gymnotiforms, South American weakly electric fish. These fish produce continuously, day and night, the EOD, an oscillating electric dipole field that they use to electro-locate and electro-communicate. The fish's ability to electro-locate depends critically on measurements of the electric field phase and amplitude made at electroreceptors in its skin, and the precision of electrosensory information can be no better than that of the EOD. The extreme precision of the EOD and its command center, the medullary pacemaker nucleus (Pn), is the topic of this thesis.
520 $a The first chapter of the thesis motivates my research, and reviews related work that others have done. Chapter 2 focuses on the electric fish's EOD and changes in its regularity. Multiple species of gymnotiforms produce EODs with a precision, measured by the coefficient of variation (CV = standard deviation/mean period), of 2 x 10-4 (standard deviation as low as 0.1 mus). Likewise, individual cells in the in vivo Pn can have nearly the same CV: ca. 6 x 10-4. The CV changes spontaneously and in response to some sensory stimuli, indicating that the regularity of the EOD is under active central control.
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