TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nguyen, Manh Duy Linh
A1  - Mamonekene, Victor
A1  - Vater, Marianne
A1  - Bartsch, Peter
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
A1  - Kirschbaum, Frank
T1  - Ontogeny of electric organ and electric organ discharge in Campylomormyrus rhynchophorus (Teleostei: Mormyridae)
JF  - Journal of comparative physiology; A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology
N2  - The 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 during ontogeny in 33-mm-long juveniles is much shorter in duration and has a different shape than the electric organ discharge in 15-cm-long adults. The change from this juvenile electric organ discharges into the adult electric organ discharge takes at least a year. The increase in electric organ discharge duration could be causally linked to the development of surface evaginations, papillae, at the rostral face of the electrocyte which are recognizable for the first time in 65-mm-long juveniles and are most prominent at the periphery of the electrocyte.
KW  - Weakly electric fish
KW  - Development
KW  - Electric organ discharge
KW  - Electric
KW  - organ
KW  - Electrocyte features
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-020-01411-z
SN  - 0340-7594
SN  - 1432-1351
VL  - 206
IS  - 3
SP  - 453
EP  - 466
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -