@article{NguyenMamonekeneVateretal.2020,
  author    = {Nguyen, Manh Duy Linh and Mamonekene, Victor and Vater, Marianne and Bartsch, Peter and Tiedemann, Ralph and Kirschbaum, Frank},
  title     = {Ontogeny of electric organ and electric organ discharge in Campylomormyrus rhynchophorus (Teleostei: Mormyridae)},
  series = {Journal of comparative physiology; A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology},
  volume    = {206},
  journal   = {Journal of comparative physiology; A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin ; Heidelberg},
  issn      = {0340-7594},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00359-020-01411-z},
  pages     = {453 -- 466},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NagelKirschbaumTiedemann2017,
  author    = {Nagel, Rebecca and Kirschbaum, Frank and Tiedemann, Ralph},
  title     = {Electric organ discharge diversification in mormyrid weakly electric fish is associated with differential expression of voltage-gated ion channel genes},
  series = {Journal of comparative physiology : A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology},
  volume    = {203},
  journal   = {Journal of comparative physiology : A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0340-7594},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00359-017-1151-2},
  pages     = {183 -- 195},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {In mormyrid weakly electric fish, the electric organ discharge (EOD) is used for species recognition, orientation and prey localization. Produced in the muscle-derived adult electric organ, the EOD exhibits a wide diversity across species in both waveform and duration. While certain defining EOD characteristics can be linked to anatomical features of the electric organ, many factors underlying EOD differentiation are yet unknown. Here, we report the differential expression of 13 Kv1 voltage-gated potassium channel genes, two inwardly rectifying potassium channel genes, two previously studied sodium channel genes and an ATPase pump in two sympatric species of the genus Campylomormyrus in both the adult electric organ and skeletal muscle. Campylomormyrus compressirostris displays a basal EOD, largely unchanged during development, while C. tshokwe has an elongated, putatively derived discharge. We report an upregulation in all Kv1 genes in the electric organ of Campylomormyrus tshokwe when compared to both skeletal muscle and C. compressirostris electric organ. This pattern of upregulation in a species with a derived EOD form suggests that voltage-gated potassium channels are potentially involved in the diversification of the EOD signal among mormyrid weakly electric fish.},
  language  = {en}
}