Daily changes in the electric behavior of weakly electric fish naturally persist in constant darkness and are socially synchronized by Adriana Migliaro, Victoria Moreno, Paul Marchal, Ana Silva

“…Gymnotus omarorum is a South American nocturnal pulse-type gymnotiform. Its electric behavior encodes information about species, sex and physiological state. …”
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The myogenic electric organ of Sternopygus macrurus: a non-contractile tissue with a skeletal muscle transcriptome by Matthew Pinch, Robert Güth, Manoj P. Samanta, Alexander Chaidez, Graciela A. Unguez

“…In most electric fish species, the electric organ (EO) derives from striated muscle cells that suppress many muscle properties. In the gymnotiform Sternopygus macrurus, mature electrocytes, the current-producing cells of the EO, do not contain sarcomeres, yet they continue to make some cytoskeletal and sarcomeric proteins and the muscle transcription factors (MTFs) that induce their expression. …”
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Activation of parallel fiber feedback by spatially diffuse stimuli reduces signal and noise correlations via independent mechanisms in a cerebellum-like structure. by Benjamin Simmonds, Maurice J Chacron

“…Using the electrosensory system of gymnotiform weakly electric fish, we recorded the activities of pyramidal cell pairs within the electrosensory lateral line lobe (ELL) under spatially localized and diffuse stimulation. …”
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