The third form electric organ discharge of electric eels [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The electric eel is a unique species that has evolved three electric organs. Since the 1950s, electric eels have generally been assumed to use these three organs to generate two forms of electric organ discharge (EOD): high-voltage EOD for predation and ...
Jun Xu, Xiang Cui, Huiyuan Zhang
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Draft de novo transcriptome assembly and proteome characterization of the electric lobe of Tetronarce californica: a molecular tool for the study of cholinergic neurotransmission in the electric organ [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2017 Background The electric organ of Tetronarce californica (an electric ray formerly known as Torpedo californica) is a classic preparation for biochemical studies of cholinergic neurotransmission.
Maria Stavrianakou +5 more
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Electric organ discharge from electric eel facilitates DNA transformation into teleost larvae in laboratory conditions [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Electric eels (Electrophorus sp.) are known for their ability to produce electric organ discharge (EOD) reaching voltages of up to 860 V.
Shintaro Sakaki +5 more
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Comparative Transcriptome Analyses Reveal the Role of Conserved Function in Electric Organ Convergence Across Electric Fishes [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 The independent origins of multiple electric organs (EOs) of fish are fascinating examples of convergent evolution. However, comparative transcriptomics of different electric fish lineages are scarce.
Ake Liu +8 more
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The transcriptional correlates of divergent electric organ discharges in Paramormyrops electric fish [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 Background Understanding the genomic basis of phenotypic diversity can be greatly facilitated by examining adaptive radiations with hypervariable traits.
Mauricio Losilla +2 more
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Ontogeny of electric organ and electric organ discharge in Campylomormyrus rhynchophorus (Teleostei: Mormyridae). [PDF]
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 2020 AbstractThe aim of this study was a longitudinal description of the ontogeny of the adult electric organ of Campylomormyrus rhynchophorus which produces as adult an electric organ discharge of very long duration (ca. 25 ms). We could indeed show (for the first time in a mormyrid fish) that the electric organ discharge which is first produced early ...
Nguyen L +5 more
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Transcriptome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms related to electric organ discharge differentiation among African weakly electric fish species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 African weakly electric fish of the mormyrid genus Campylomormyrus generate pulse-type electric organ discharges (EODs) for orientation and communication. Their pulse durations are species-specific and elongated EODs are a derived trait.
Julia Canitz +2 more
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Synaptic vesicles isolated from the electric organ of Torpedo californica and from the central nervous system of Mus musculus contain small ribonucleic acids (sRNAs) [PDF]
Genomics Data, 2017 Synaptic vesicles (SVs) are presynaptic organelles that load and release small molecule neurotransmitters at chemical synapses. In addition to classic neurotransmitters, we have demonstrated that SVs isolated from the Peripheral Nervous Systems (PNS) of ...
Huinan Li +4 more
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The myogenic electric organ of Sternopygus macrurus: a non-contractile tissue with a skeletal muscle transcriptome [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 In most electric fish species, the electric organ (EO) derives from striated muscle cells that suppress many muscle properties. In the gymnotiform Sternopygus macrurus, mature electrocytes, the current-producing cells of the EO, do not contain sarcomeres,
Matthew Pinch +4 more
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Ultrafast traveling wave dominates the electric organ discharge of Apteronotus leptorhynchus: an inverse modelling study. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2015 Shifman AR, Longtin A, Lewis JE.
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