Electroreception, the capacity to detect external underwater electric fields with specialised
receptors, is a phylogenetically widespread sensory modality in fishes and amphibians. In …

Many male signallers convey information to female receivers in multimodal courtship
displays. While much is known about how males vary in terms of signalling, variation in …

In the African weakly electric fish genus Campylomormyrus, electric organ discharge signals
are strikingly different in shape and duration among closely related species, contribute to …

Neuroscience has a long, rich history in embracing unusual animals for research. Over the
past several decades, there has been a technology-driven bottleneck in the species used for …

Weakly electric gymnotiform and mormyrid fish generate and detect weak electric fields to
image their worlds and communicate. These multi-purpose electric signals are generated by …

Molecular variation contributes to the evolution of adaptive phenotypes, though it is often
difficult to understand precisely how. The adaptively significant electric organ discharge …

Several studies have begun to elucidate the genetic and developmental processes
underlying major vertebrate traits. Few of these traits have evolved repeatedly in vertebrates …

Mormyroidea is a superfamily of weakly electric African fishes with great potential as a
model in a variety of biomedical research areas including systems neuroscience, muscle …

In African mormyrid fishes, evolutionary change in a sensory region of the brain established
an ability to detect subtle variation in electric communication signals. In one lineage, this …

Communication signals are highly diverse traits. This diversity is usually assumed to be
shaped by selective forces, whereas the null hypothesis of divergence through drift is often …