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ArticleBiology letters2024

Ecologically mediated differences in electric organ discharge drive evolution in a sodium channel gene in South American electric fishes.

Frances E Hauser, Dawn Xiao, Alexander Van Nynatten, Kristen K Brochu-De Luca, Thanara Rajakulendran, Ahmed E Elbassiouny, Harunya Sivanesan, Pradeega Sivananthan, William G R Crampton, Nathan R Lovejoy

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Article in Biology letters, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Frances E HauserDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.ORCID 0000-0001-9694-7300
Dawn XiaoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.
Alexander Van NynattenDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.
Kristen K Brochu-De LucaDepartment of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, 501 ASI Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Thanara RajakulendranDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.
Ahmed E ElbassiounyDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.ORCID 0000-0003-2372-4928
Harunya SivanesanDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.
Pradeega SivananthanDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.
William G R CramptonDepartment of Biology, University of Central Florida, 4110 Libra Dr, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
Nathan R LovejoyDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.
University of Toronto · CAPennsylvania State University · USUniversity of Central Florida · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Active electroreception-the ability to detect objects and communicate with conspecifics via the detection and generation of electric organ discharges (EODs)-has evolved convergently in several fish lineages. South American electric fishes (Gymnotiformes) are a highly species-rich group, possibly in part due to evolution of an electric organ (EO) that can produce diverse EODs. Neofunctionalization of a voltage-gated sodium channel gene accompanied the evolution of electrogenic tissue from muscle and resulted in a novel gene (scn4aa) uniquely expressed in the EO. Here, we investigate the link between variation in scn4aa and differences in EOD waveform. We combine gymnotiform scn4aa sequences encoding the C-terminus of the Na

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Electric FishAnimalsElectric OrganPhylogenySodium ChannelsSouth AmericaSodium ChannelsGymnotiformesmolecular evolutionNav1.4aprotein evolutionscn4aasensory systems

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PMID38412964
PMCPMC10898970
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