title: Sexual signals in electric fishes.
abstract: Electroreceptive bony fishes of Africa (the Mormyriformes) and South America (the Gymnotiformes) detect and communicate with conspecifics by their continuously discharging electric organs. Laboratory studies of members of each group are beginning to reveal the mechanisms of communicating with and finding mates, offering much scope for future studies of the behavioral ecology of electric fishes.
authors.affiliation: Bernd Kramer is at the Zoological Institute of the University, D-8400 Regensburg, FRG.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kramer