-Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata
South American Gymnotiform knifefish have electric organs that create electric fields for electro-location and electro-communication. Electric organs can be obtained from the myogenic or the neurogenic cells. The early-stage development of EOs is still obscure. We describe the advancement of the mEO in the Gymnotiform bluntnose knifefish, Brachyhypopomus gaudio. EO primordial cells emerge during early stages of development in the ventral edge of the tail myotome, move into the ventral fin and evolve into syncytial electrolytes at early larval stages.
A characteristic pair of thick nerve cords that flank the dorsal aorta, the location and characteristic morphology of which are redolent of the nEO in Apteronotid species, proposing a typical evolutionary cause of these issues. Taken together, our discoveries uncover the early stage origin of the mEO and provide a foundation to explain the mechanism of evolutionary diversification of electric charge generation by myogenic and neurogenic EOs. Electric fish can create electric fields in the water permitting them to detect their sense in obscurity and interface with potential mates and contenders. They do so by utilizing electric organs (EOs) that are specialised in producing and releasing power.
Sources:
Fishbase Database (www.fishbase.se)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160620301858
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