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Cover: This juvenile Apteronotus leptorhynchus, or brown ghost knifefish, belongs to one of approximately 200 species of South American gymnotiform weakly electric fishes. These animals use an active electrosense for foraging at night in often turbid waters as well as for communication. The total energetic cost of their electric behaviour, including generation and sensing of the electric field, is estimated to be about 30% of routine metabolic rate (Salazar et al., pp. 2459−2468). The articles in this special issue review the remarkable recent contributions of research on electric fishes to energetics and many other areas of biology. Photo credit: Guy l'Heureux.Close Modal - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
Find us at the SEB 2021 Annual Conference
We’re looking forward to the SEB 2021 Annual Conference, taking place online from 29 June – 8 July.
Careers and Coffee
Join JEB Reviews Editor Charlottle Rutledge at 1.30pm on 1 July to hear about her personal career journey.
Young Scientist Award
We’re delighted to sponsor the Young Scientist Award (animal section). The winner will be announced on 2 July during the Medal and Prize session.
Subject collections
View our subject collections highlighting papers by recent SEB award winners, find out how JEB supports early-career researchers and learn about the journal.
Call for papers - Building New Paradigms in Comparative Physiology and Biomechanics
Our upcoming special issue is welcoming submissions until 31 July 2021. The special issue will be published in early 2022 and will be widely promoted online and at key global conferences.
Sickness behaviours across vertebrate taxa
Caiman red blood cells carry bicarbonate, not blood plasma
Bautista et al. find that rather than carry bicarbonate in their blood plasma, caiman carry the anion in their red blood cells, thanks to their specially modified haemoglobin.
Read & Publish agreement with EIFL
We are pleased to announce that researchers in 30 developing and transition economy countries can benefit from immediate and fee-free Open Access publishing in Journal of Experimental Biology following a new agreement with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL).
We now have over 200 institutions in more than 20 countries and six library consortia participating in our read & Publish initiative. Find out more and view the full list of participating institutions.
