AmiGO 2: Term Details for "electroception" (GO:0050956)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0050956
Name: electroception
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: electroception sense, electroceptive sense
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The series of events required for an organism to receive an electrical stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Many fish possess an electroception sense; for example, the electric eel uses low voltage pulses of electricity for navigation and prey location. Source: PMID:10210663, GOC:ai, Wikipedia:Electroreception
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0050956 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to electroception (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to electroception (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for electroception (excluding "regulates").