...Stefan Schuster; Natalie Otto SUMMARY Weakly electric fish communicate and electrolocate objects in the dark by discharging their electric organs (EOs) and monitoring the spatiotemporal pattern of current flow through their skin. In the South-American pulse-type gymnotid fish these organs often...

... components generated by the abdominal region prevail in self-generated fields. Similar results were obtained from Brachyhypopomus pinnicaudatus . These results suggest that, in pulse-emitting gymnotids, electrolocation and electrocommunication signals may be carried by different field components generated...

... by Company of Biologists 1999 electric fish electrocommunication gymnotiform gymnotid mormyriform mormyrid Mormyridae electric organ electrocyte electrostatic field conductivity evolution communication Forty years ago the Journal of Experimental Biology published Hans Lissmann’s...