Sentences with phrase «electric fish»

In a surprise outcome, the European Parliament voted today to ban a type of electric fishing that has demonstrated environmental benefits, as part of legislation to reform Europe's fisheries.

It's time to start listening to the silent majority of 70 billion, which we are now starting to do thanks to a little electric fish with a huge cerebellum.

We mainly study ion channels that generate communication signals of weakly electric fish.

Electric fish which swim about in muddy rivers have electric fields, and through these get a sense of where things are around them.

The way electric eels have been described by biologists in the past has been fairly primitive, says Jason Gallant, a biologist who heads the Michigan State University Electric Fish Lab in East Lansing who was not involved in the study.

Two groups of South American and African electric fish, whose lineages diverged 200 million years ago, independently evolved similar ways to generate electricity, according to a new study.

By painstakingly recording the activity of individual granule cells with microelectrodes in a living electric fish, neuroscientist Nate Sawtell of Columbia University's Kavli Institute for Brain Science, where I am currently a Ph.D. candidate, has uncovered some of the first direct evidence in support of the 1960s theory that granule cells may enhance the cerebellum's ability to learn skills such as fine movements.

«This is an immensely interesting and important finding for electric fish biology,» says Jason Gallant at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

In a surprise outcome, the European Parliament voted 16 January to ban a type of electric fishing that has demonstrated environmental benefits, as part of legislation to reform Europe's fisheries.

To do so, Ana's group has been working on a native species of South American weakly electric fish, in which they have identified a uniquely clear - cut example of pure territorial aggression among teleosts.

CC: If there is anything in the idea of trying to start with what you are mainly given and working from there, you would hope that whatever you started from, whether you were an electric fish or what, you would finish up with the same things, but in different orders.

We can't yet ask the electric fish, but maybe one day we shall be able to.

After all, we can see and catch an electric fish and it gets involved in our set of actions.

If you visit a doctor, he will likely go to his saltwater tank, carefully scoop up an electric fish, and press it to your forehead in the hope of shocking the headache out of you.

Electric fish can often swim backwards as easily as forwards.

Recent studies of the electric fish Torpedo suggest that the source of the acetylcholine emitted by a neuron is the cytoplasm rather than the synaptic vesicles

One possible road to discovery has recently come from an unusual source: the electric fish Gnathonemus petersii, which has long fascinated neuroscientists because it has a monstrously large cerebellum.

They damage the fisheries with electric fishing.

A type of electric fish, this eel generates stunning voltages to zap its prey using special cells known as electrocytes.