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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Magic trait Electric Organ Discharge (EOD)
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2009 A unique evolutionary specialization of African weakly electric fish (Mormyridae) is their ability to produce and perceive electric signals. Mormyrids use their Electric Organs Discharge (EOD) for electrolocation and electrocommunication. Here we discuss
Philine G.D. Feulner +4 more
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Fish geometry and electric organ discharge determine functional organization of the electrosensory epithelium. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Active electroreception in Gymnotus omarorum is a sensory modality that perceives the changes that nearby objects cause in a self generated electric field.
Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck +6 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 ...
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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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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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The transcriptional correlates of divergent electric organ discharges in Paramormyrops electric fish [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 Abstract Background Understanding the genomic basis of phenotypic diversity can be greatly facilitated by examining adaptive radiations with hypervariable traits. In this study, we focus on a rapidly diverged species group of mormyrid electric fish in the genus
Mauricio Losilla +2 more
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The energetics of electric organ discharge generation in gymnotiform weakly electric fish [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2013 SummaryGymnotiform weakly electric fish produce an electric signal to sense their environment and communicate with conspecifics. Although the generation of such relatively large electric signals over an entire lifetime is expected to be energetically costly, supporting evidence to date is equivocal.
Vielka L. Salazar +2 more
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Species-specific diversity of a fixed motor pattern: the electric organ discharge of Gymnotus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 Understanding fixed motor pattern diversity across related species provides a window for exploring the evolution of their underlying neural mechanisms.
Alejo Rodríguez-Cattaneo +4 more
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The active electric sense of weakly electric fish: from electric organ discharge to sensory processing and behaviour [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2016 Sensory systems have been shaped by evolution to extract information that is relevant for decision making. In order to understand the mechanisms used by sensory systems for filtering the incoming stream of sensory input, it is important to have a ...
Krahe Rüdiger
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