Planteome: Term Details for "electroception" (GO:0050956)

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
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to electroception.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to electroception.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for electroception.
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subject	relation	object
electroception	is_a	sensory perception of electrical stimulus (GO:0050952)

subject	relation	object
detection of electrical stimulus involved in electroception (GO:0050964)	BFO:0000050	electroception