Ontogeny of electric organ and electric organ discharge in Campylomormyrus rhynchophorus (Teleostei: Mormyridae) [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, 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 ...
Linh Nguyen, , Frank Kirschbaum
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Two new species and a new subgenus of toothed Brachyhypopomus electric knifefishes (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae) from the central Amazon and considerations pertaining to the evolution of a monophasic electric organ discharge [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2013 We describe two new, closely related species of toothed Brachyhypopomus (Hypopomidae: Gymnotiformes: Teleostei) from the central Amazon basin and create a new subgenus for them.
John Sullivan +2 more
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Gene and allele-specific expression during electric organ ontogeny in African weakly electric fish (Campylomormyrus) [PDF]
Communications BiologyThe African weakly electric fish use their muscle-derived electric organ to produce electric organ discharge (EOD) for electrocommunication and electrolocation.
Feng Cheng +6 more
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Toward model-guided electrophysiology—Encoding of chirps in the electrosensory periphery of Apteronotus leptorhynchus [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational NeuroscienceModels formalize our understanding of a system and generate hypotheses that can be tested experimentally. In this study, we use a previously developed model of p-type electroreceptor afferents to support electrophysiological observations regarding the ...
Alexandra Barayeu +3 more
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