Social interactions between live and artificial weakly electric fish: Electrocommunication and locomotor behavior of Mormyrus rume proboscirostris towards a mobile dummy fish. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Mormyrid weakly electric fish produce short, pulse-type electric organ discharges for actively probing their environment and to communicate with conspecifics.
Martin Worm +2 more
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Electrocommunication in pulse Gymnotiformes: the role of electric organ discharge (EOD) time course in species identification [PDF]
, 2020 Understanding how individuals detect and recognize signals emitted by conspecifics is fundamental to discussions of animal communication. The species pair Gymnotus omarorum and Brachyhypopomus gauderio, found in syntopy in Uruguay, emit species-specific ...
Waddell, J.C., Caputi, A.A.
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Differentiation of courtship songs in parapatric sibling species of dwarf stonebashers from southern Africa (Mormyridae, Teleostei) [PDF]
, 2006 We describe the nocturnal courtship songs of male dwarf stonebashers, Pollimyrus castelnaui, from the Okavango River and its inland delta. We examined the question of whether the songs are sufficiently differentiated from those of its parapatric sibling ...
Kramer, Bernd, Lamml, Michael
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Waveform generation in the weakly electric fishGymnotus coropinae(Hoedeman): the electric organ and the electric organ discharge [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2009 SUMMARYThis article deals with the electric organ and its discharge in Gymnotus coropinae, a representative species of one of the three main clades of the genus. Three regions with bilateral symmetry are described: (1)subopercular (medial and lateral columns of complex shaped electrocytes); (2)abdominal (medial and lateral columns of cuboidal and ...
María E, Castelló +5 more
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The sensory effects of light on the electric organ discharge rate of Gymnotus omarorum [PDF]
, 2023 Gymnotiformes are nocturnal fishes inhabiting the root mats of floating plants. They use their electric organ discharge (EOD) to explore the environment and to communicate.
Pedro A. Aguilera +5 more
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Male-mediated species recognition among African weakly electric fishes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Effective communication among sympatric species is often instrumental for behavioural isolation, where the failure to successfully discriminate between potential mates could lead to less fit hybrid offspring.
Rebecca Nagel +5 more
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Design and construction of an Electric Fish Finder
Neotropical IchthyologyWe provide notes on the design and construction of an Electric Fish Finder - a portable differential amplifier for detecting the electrostatic fields of gymnotiform knifefishes.
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Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2019 The weakly electric gymnotiform fish produce a rhythmic electric organ discharge (EOD) used for communication and active electrolocation. The EOD frequency is entrained to a medullary pacemaker nucleus. During communication and exploration, this rate can
Caitlin E. Field +4 more
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A model for studying the energetics of sustained high frequency firing. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Regulating membrane potential and synaptic function contributes significantly to the energetic costs of brain signaling, but the relative costs of action potentials (APs) and synaptic transmission during high-frequency firing are unknown.
Bela Joos +3 more
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Comparative histology of the adult electric organ among four species of the genus Campylomormyrus (Teleostei: Mormyridae) [PDF]
, 2015 The electric organ (EO) of weakly electric mormyrids consists of flat, disk-shaped electrocytes with distinct anterior and posterior faces. There are multiple species-characteristic patterns in the geometry of the electrocytes and their innervation.
Tiedemann, Ralph +12 more
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