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. 1965 Oct;180(3):592–606. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1965.sp007719

Electroreceptor mechanisms: the relation of impulse frequency to stimulus strength and responses to pulsed stimuli in the ampullae of Lorenzini of elasmobranchs.

R W Murray
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