Jamming Avoidance in Electric Fish and Frogs: Strategies of Signal Oscillator Timing
作者:
Randy Zelick,
期刊:
Brain, Behavior and Evolution
(Karger Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 28,
issue 1-3
页码: 60-69
ISSN:0006-8977
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1159/000118692
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Spontaneous calling;Jamming avoidance;Mutual entrainment;Electric fish;Electric frogs
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Repetitive spontaneous calling in frogs and electric signalling in pulse-type electric fishes are driven by neural pacemakers. Minimization of signal overlap between neighbors is achieved in frogs and certain electric fishes by mutual entrainment, requiring cycle-by-cycle adjustment of pacemaker interval. Other fishes, which require a regular electric organ discharge, are more constrained in their ability to avoid jamming. Entrainment may also serve to reciprocally place signals in a temporal ''blindspot'' of the receiver, the period of elevated sensory threshold following signal production, to reduce aggressive interactions.
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