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Signal Cloaking by Electric Fish.
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- Gene and allele-specific expression during electric organ ontogeny in African weakly electric fish (Campylomormyrus).Communications biology · 2026Article
- Toward model-guided electrophysiology-Encoding of chirps in the electrosensory periphery ofFrontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Gene expression correlates and mechanistic insights into electric organ discharge duration changes in mormyrid electric fish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Organization of the stalk system on electrocytes in mormyrid weakly electric fish Campylomormyrus compressirostris.Cell and tissue research · 2025Article
- Ecologically mediated differences in electric organ discharge drive evolution in a sodium channel gene in South American electric fishes.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Gene and Allele-Specific Expression Underlying the Electric Signal Divergence in African Weakly Electric Fish.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Derived loss of signal complexity and plasticity in a genus of weakly electric fish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Exploiting common senses: sensory ecology meets wildlife conservation and management.Conservation physiology · 2021Article
- Sheep in wolves' clothing: prey rely on proactive defences when predator and non-predator cues are similar.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- The Astonishing Behavior of Electric Eels.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2019Review
- The complexity of high-frequency electric fields degrades electrosensory inputs: implications for the jamming avoidance response in weakly electric fish.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- Electrical Potential of Leaping Eels.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2017Article
- Ionic mechanisms of microsecond-scale spike timing in single cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014Article
- Social regulation of electric signal plasticity in male Brachyhypopomus gauderio.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013Article
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- Signal modulation as a mechanism for handicap disposal.Animal behaviour · 2012Article
- Coding conspecific identity and motion in the electric sense.PLoS computational biology · 2012Article
- Non-visual crypsis: a review of the empirical evidence for camouflage to senses other than vision.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2009Review
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Electric fish produce weak electric fields to image their world in darkness and to communicate with potential mates and rivals. Eavesdropping by electroreceptive predators exerts selective pressure on electric fish to shift their signals into less-detectable high-frequency spectral ranges. Hypopomid electric fish evolved a signal-cloaking strategy that reduces their detectability by predators in the lab (and thus presumably their risk of predation in the field). These fish produce broad-frequency electric fields close to the body, but the heterogeneous local fields merge over space to cancel the low-frequency spectrum at a distance. Mature males dynamically regulate this cloaking mechanism to enhance or suppress low-frequency energy. The mechanism underlying electric-field cloaking involves electrogenic cells that produce two independent action potentials. In a unique twist, these cells orient sodium and potassium currents in the same direction, potentially boosting their capabilities for current generation. Exploration of such evolutionary inventions could aid the design of biogenerators to power implantable medical devices, an ambition that would benefit from the complete genome sequence of a gymnotiform fish.
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