Electric Organ

Organs, Electric

In about 250 species of electric fishes, modified muscle fibers forming disklike multinucleate plates arranged in stacks like batteries in series and embedded in a gelatinous matrix. A large torpedo ray may have half a million plates. Muscles in different parts of the body may be modified, i.e., the trunk and tail in the electric eel, the hyobranchial apparatus in the electric ray, and extrinsic eye muscles in the stargazers. Powerful electric organs emit pulses in brief bursts several times a second. They serve to stun prey and ward off predators. A large torpedo ray can produce of shock of more than 200 volts, capable of stunning a human. (Storer et al., General Zoology, 6th ed, p672)

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D004557

Organs, Electric

Electric Organs

Organ, Electric

animal only; IM

AB AH BS CH CY DE DG EM EN GD IM IN IR ME MI PA PH PP PS RE SU TR UL VI

C0013782

1

In about 250 species of electric fishes, modified muscle fibers forming disklike multinucleate plates arranged in stacks like batteries in series and embedded in a gelatinous matrix. A large torpedo ray may have half a million plates. Muscles in different parts of the body may be modified, i.e., the trunk and tail in the electric eel, the hyobranchial apparatus in the electric ray, and extrinsic eye muscles in the stargazers. Powerful electric organs emit pulses in brief bursts several times a second. They serve to stun prey and ward off predators. A large torpedo ray can produce of shock of more than 200 volts, capable of stunning a human. (Storer et al., General Zoology, 6th ed, p672)

19680101

68(63)

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000737

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000201

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000503

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000187

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000002

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000528

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000166

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000294

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000254

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000821

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000382

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000601

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000648

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000276

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000502

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000637

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000293

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000098

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000196

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000033

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000378

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000000981

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000473

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000469

68

19990101

19950518

A13.332

D004557

Electric Organ

T013932

NLM (1963)

T032

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D000825