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Comparable ages for the independent origins of electrogenesis in African and South American weakly electric fishes by Lavoué, Sébastien, Miya, Masaki, Arnegard, Matthew E, Sullivan, John P, Hopkins, Carl D, Nishida, Mutsumi

“…One of the most remarkable examples of convergent evolution among vertebrates is illustrated by the independent origins of an active electric sense in South…”
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Sexual Signal Evolution Outpaces Ecological Divergence during Electric Fish Species Radiation by Arnegard, Matthew E., McIntyre, Peter B., Harmon, Luke J., Zelditch, Miriam L., Crampton, William G. R., Davis, Justin K., Sullivan, John P., Lavoué, Sébastien, Hopkins, Carl D.

“…Natural selection arising from resource competition and environmental heterogeneity can drive adaptive radiation. Ecological opportunity facilitates this…”
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Mitogenome recovered from a 19 th Century holotype by shotgun sequencing supplies a generic name for an orphaned clade of African weakly electric fishes (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae) by Sullivan, John P, Hopkins, Carl D, Pirro, Stacy, Peterson, Rose, Chakona, Albert, Mutizwa, Tadiwa I, Mukweze Mulelenu, Christian, Alqahtani, Fahad H, Vreven, Emmanuel, Dillman, Casey B

“…Steindachner, 1866, a genus of Mormyridae (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha), has been monotypic since the description of (Steindacher, 1866) from a single…”
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Sexual Signal Evolution Outpaces Ecological Divergence during Electric Fish Species Radiation by ARNEGARD, Matthew E, MCINTYRE, Peter B, HARMON, Luke J, ZELDITCH, Miriam L, CRAMPTON, William G. R, DAVIS, Justin K, SULLIVAN, John P, LAVOUE, Sébastien, HOPKINS, Carl D

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Time-domain signal divergence and discrimination without receptor modification in sympatric morphs of electric fishes by Arnegard, Matthew E, Jackson, B Scott, Hopkins, Carl D

“…Polymorphism in an animal communication channel provides a framework for studying proximate rules of signal design as well as ultimate mechanisms of signal…”
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Phylogenomics of Bony-Tongue Fishes (Osteoglossomorpha) Shed Light on the Craniofacial Evolution and Biogeography of the Weakly Electric Clade (Mormyridae) by Peterson, Rose D, Sullivan, John P, Hopkins, Carl D, Santaquiteria, Aintzane, Dillman, Casey B, Pirro, Stacy, Betancur-R, Ricardo, Arcila, Dahiana, Hughes, Lily C, Ortí, Guillermo

“…Abstract Bonytongues (Osteoglossomorpha) constitute an ancient clade of teleost fishes distributed in freshwater habitats throughout the world. The group…”
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Differential expression of genes and proteins between electric organ and skeletal muscle in the mormyrid electric fish Brienomyrus brachyistius by Gallant, Jason R, Hopkins, Carl D, Deitcher, David L

“…Electric organs (EOs) have evolved independently in vertebrates six times from skeletal muscle (SM). The transcriptional changes accompanying this…”
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Mitogenome recovered from a 19[sup.th] Century holotype by shotgun sequencing supplies a generic name for an orphaned clade of African weakly electric fishes by Sullivan, John P, Hopkins, Carl D, Pirro, Stacy, Peterson, Rose, Chakona, Albert, Mutizwa, Tadiwa I, Mukweze Mulelenu, Christian, Alqahtani, Fahad H, Vreven, Emmanuel, Dillman, Casey B

“…Heteromormyrus Steindachner, 1866, a genus of Mormyridae (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha), has been monotypic since the description of Heteromormyrus…”
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A biological function for electroreception in sharks and rays by Hopkins, Carl D

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Cryptomyrus: a new genus of Mormyridae (Teleostei, Osteoglossomorpha) with two new species from Gabon, West-Central Africa by Sullivan, John P, Lavoué, Sébastien, Hopkins, Carl D

“…We use mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data to show that three weakly electric mormyrid fish specimens collected at three widely separated localities in…”
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Electrical and behavioral courtship displays in the mormyrid fish Brienomyrus brachyistius by Wong, Ryan Y, Hopkins, Carl D

“…Mormyrid electric fish rely on the waveform of their electric organ discharges (EODs) for communicating species, sex, and social status, while they use the…”
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AFLPs RESOLVE PHYLOGENY AND REVEAL MITOCHONDRIAL INTROGRESSION WITHIN A SPECIES FLOCK OF AFRICAN ELECTRIC FISH (MORMYROIDEA: TELEOSTEI) by Sullivan, John P, Lavoué, Sébastien, Arnegard, Matthew E, Hopkins, Carl D

“…Estimating species phylogeny from a single gene tree can be especially problematic for studies of species flocks in which diversification has been rapid. Here…”
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Signal variation and its morphological correlates in Paramormyrops kingsleyae provide insight into the evolution of electrogenic signal diversity in mormyrid electric fish by Gallant, Jason R., Arnegard, Matthew E., Sullivan, John P., Carlson, Bruce A., Hopkins, Carl D.

“…We describe patterns of geographic variation in electric signal waveforms among populations of the mormyrid electric fish species Paramormyrops kingsleyae …”
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Neural Substrates for Species Recognition in the Time-Coding Electrosensory Pathway of Mormyrid Electric Fish by Friedman, Matthew A, Hopkins, Carl D

“…Mormyrid electric fish have species- and sex-typical electric organ discharges (EODs). One class of tuberous electroreceptors, the knollenorgans, plays a…”
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Design features for electric communication by Hopkins, C D

“…How do the communication discharges produced by electric fish evolve to accommodate the unique design features for the modality? Two design features are…”
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Stereotyped temporal patterns in electrical communication by Carlson, Bruce A., Hopkins, Carl D.

“…Mormyrid electric fish communicate using a fixed electric organ discharge (EOD) produced with a variable sequence of pulse intervals (SPI). Through a…”
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DISCOVERY AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF A RIVERINE SPECIES FLOCK OF AFRICAN ELECTRIC FISHES (MORMYRIDAE: TELEOSTEI) by Sullivan, John P, Lavoué, Sébastien, Hopkins, Carl D

“…The evolution of species-specific mate recognition signals is of particular interest within speciose monophyletic groups with restricted distributions (known…”
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Commentary: Evolution of electric organs by Hopkins, Carl D.

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Petrocephalus of Odzala offer insights into evolutionary patterns of signal diversification in the Mormyridae, a family of weakly electrogenic fishes from Africa by Lavoué, Sébastien, Arnegard, Matthew E., Sullivan, John P., Hopkins, Carl D.

“…Electric signals of mormyrid fishes have recently been described from several regions of Africa. Members of the Mormyridae produce weak electric organ…”
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Phylogenetic utility of the first two introns of the S7 ribosomal protein gene in African electric fishes (Mormyroidea: Teleostei) and congruence with other molecular markers by LAVOUÉ, SÉBASTIEN, SULLIVAN, JOHN P., HOPKINS, CARL D.

“…A series of recent molecular systematic studies of the African electric fishes (Mormyroidea) have challenged many aspects of their traditional taxonomy and…”
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