Water temperature sensitivity of EOD waveform in Brachyhypopomus pinnicaudatus

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-197

  Silva, A ^a   Quintana, L ^a   Galeano, M ^a   Errandonea, P ^a   Macadar, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Captivity; Electric fish; Field experiments; Reproduction; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032866716     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050377     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Ardanaz JL (1998) Efectos de la temperatura sobre la forma de onda de la descarga del órgano eléctrico en Gymnotus carapo. Magister Thesis, PEDECIBA, Uruguay
2. Baggerman B (1990) Sticklebacks. In: Munro AD, Scott AP, Lam TJ (eds) Reproductive seasonality in teleosts: environmental influences. CRC Press, Boca Raton, chap 5
3. Bass AH (1986) Electric organ revisited: evolution of a vertebrate communication and orientation organ. In: Bullock TH, Heiligenberg W (eds) Electroreception. Wiley, New York, pp 13-70
4. Bass AH, Hopkins CD (1985) Hormonal control of sex differences in the electric organ discharge (EOD) of mormyrid fishes. J Comp Physiol 156 A: 587-604
5. Bass AH, Volman SF (1987) From behavior to membranes: testosterone-induced changes in action potential duration in electric organs. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84: 9295-9298
6. Bass AH, Denizot JP, Marchaterre MA (1986) Ultrastructural features and hormone-dependent sex differences of mormyrid electric organs. J Comp Neurol 254: 511-528
7. Bennett MVL (1971) Electroreception. In: Hoar WS, Randall DJ (eds) Fish physiology, vol V. Academic Press, New York, pp 493-574
8. Bennett MVL, Grundfest H (1959) Electrophysiology of electric organ discharge in Gymnotus carapo. J Gen Physiol 42: 1067-1104
9. Blaxter JHS (1988) Pattern and variety in development. In: Hoar WS, Randall DJ (eds) Fish Physiology, vol IXA. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 1-58
10. Caputi A, Silva A, Macadar O (1993) Electric organ activation in Gymnotus carapo: spinal origin and peripheral mechanisms. J Comp Physiol A 173: 227-232
11. Caputi A (1999) The electric organ discharge in pulse gymnotids: from a single pulse to a complex electromotor pattern. J Exp Biol 202: 1229-1241
12. Caputi A, Budelli R (1995) The electric image in weakly electric fish: I. A data-based model of waveform generation in Gymnotus carapo. J Comput Neurosci 2: 131-147
13. Caputi A, Macadar O, Trujillo-Cenóz O (1989) Waveform generation in Gymnotus carapo. III. Analysis of the fish body as an electric source. J Comp Physiol A 165: 361-370
14. Caputi A, Macadar O, Trujillo-Cenóz O (1994) Waveform generation in Rhamphichthys rostratus (L.) (Teleostei, Gymnotiformes). The electric organ and its spatiotemporal activation pattern. J Comp Physiol A 174: 633-642
15. Caputi AA, Silva AC, Macadar O (1998) The EOD of Brachyhypopomus pinnicaudatus: the effect of environmental variables on waveform generation. Brain Behav Evol 52: 148-158
16. Ferrari MB, McAnelly ML, Zakon HH (1995) Individual variation in and androgen modulation of the sodium current in electric organ. J Neurosci 15: 4023-4032
17. Franchina CR (1993) The waveform of the weakly electric fish Hypopomus pinnicaudatus changes daily in the male. J Comp Physiol A 173: 742
18. Franchina CR (1997) Ontogeny of the electric organ discharge and the electric organ in the weakly electric pulse fish Brachyhypopomus pinnicaudatus (Hypopomidae, Gymnotiformes). J Comp Physiol A 181: 111-119
19. Franchina CR, Stoddard PK (1998) Plasticity of the electric organ discharge waveform of the electric fish Brachyhypopomus pinnicaudatus. I. Quantification of day-night changes. J Comp Physiol A 183: 759-768
20. Freedman EG, Olyarchuk J, Marchaterre MA, Bass AH (1989) A temporal analysis of testosterone-induced changes in electric organs and electric organ discharges in mormyrid fishes. J Neurobiol 20: 619-634
21. Hagedorn M (1986) The ecology, courtship, and mating of gymnotiform electric fish. In: Bullock TH, Heiligenberg W (eds) Electroreception. Wiley, New York, pp 497-526
22. Hagedorn M (1988) Ecology and behavior of a pulse-type electric fish Hypopomus occidentalis (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae) in a fresh-water stream in Panama. Copeia 2: 324-335
23. Hagedorn M (1995) The electric fish Hypopomus occidentalis can rapidly modulate the amplitude and duration of its electric organ discharges. Anim Behav 49: 1409-1413
24. Hagedorn M, Carr C (1985) Single electrocytes produce a sexually dimorphic signal in South American electric fish, Hypopomus occidentalis (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae). J Comp Physiol A 156: 511-523
25. Hopkins CD (1991) Hypopomus pinnicaudatus (Hypopomidae) a new species of gymnotiform fish from French Guiana. Copeia 1991: 151-161
26. Hopkins CD, Comfort NC, Bastian J, Bass AH (1990) Functional analysis of sexual dimorphism in an electric fish, Hypopomus pinnicaudatus, Order Gymnotiformes. Brain Behav Evol 35: 350-367
27. Kirschbaum F (1979) Reproduction of the weakly electric fish Eigenmannia virescens (Rhamphichthydae, Teleostei) in captivity. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 4: 331-355
28. Kirschbaum F (1995) Taxonomy, zoogeography and general ecology of South American knifefishes (Gymnotiformes). In: Moller P (ed) Electric fishes. History and behavior. Fish and Fisheries Series 17. Chapman & Hall, London, pp 446-464
29. Kramer B (1990) Electrocommunication in teleost fish. In: Bradshaw SD, Burggren W, Heller HC, Ishii S, Langer H, Neuweiler G, Randall DJ (eds) Zoophysiology, vol XXIX. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 1-217
30. Landsman RE (1993) The effects of captivity on the electric organ discharge and plasma hormone levels in Gnathonemus petersii (Mormyriformes). J Comp Physiol A 172: 619-631
31. Landsman RE (1995) Sources of plasticity in behavior and its physiology: sex, hormones, environment and the captivity model. In: Moller P (ed) Electric fishes. History and behavior. Fish and Fisheries Series 17. Chapman & Hall, London, pp 303-343
32. Landsman RE, Harding CF, Moller P, Thomas P (1990) The effects of androgens and estrogens on the external morphology and electric organ discharge waveform of Gnathonemus petersii (Mormyridae, Teleostei). Horm Behav 24: 532-553
33. Macadar O (1993) Motor control of waveform generation in Gymnotus carapo. J Comp Physiol A 173: 278-279
34. Macadar O, Lorenzo D, Velluti JC (1989) Waveform generation of the electric organ discharge in Gymnotus carapo. II. Electro-physiological properties of single electrocytes. J Comp Physiol A 165: 353-360
35. Macadar O, Silva A, Galeano M, Comas V, Sierra F (1997) Temperature and androgens modulate EOD waveform in electric fish acting on electrocytic membrane conductances. Neurosci Abstr 101: 15
36. McAnelly L, Zakon HH (1996) Protein kinase A activation increases sodium current magnitude in the electric organ of Sternopygus. J Neurosci 16: 4383-4388
37. McGregor PK, Westby GWM (1992) Discrimination of individually characteristic electric organ discharges by weakly electric fish. Anim Behav 43: 977-986
38. Meyer JH (1983) Steroid influences upon the discharge frequencies of a weakly electric fish. J Comp Physiol 153 A: 29-37
39. Mills A, Zakon HH (1987) Coordination of EOD frequency and pulse duration in weakly electric wave fish: the influence of androgens. J Comp Physiol 161 A: 417-430
40. Mills A, Zakon HH (1991) Chronic androgen treatment increases action potential duration in the electric organ of Sternopygus. J Neurosci 11: 2349-2361
41. Schwassmann HO (1976) Ecology and taxonomic status of different geographic populations of Gymnorhamphichthys hypostomus. Ellis (Pisces, Cypriniformes, Gymnotoidei). Biotropica 8: 25-40
42. Servicio Pluviométrico Nacional (1999) Totales anuales y estacionales de precipitaciones. . In: El Observador (ed) Anuario 9899, Montevideo, pp 194
43. Silva AC, Caputi A, Galeano M, Errandonea P, Eiris G, Budelli R (1996) Natural and evoked sexual dimorphism in the weakly electric fish Hypopomus sp. Soc Neurosci Abstr 179: 7
44. Trujillo-Cenóz O, Echagüe JA (1989) Waveform generation of the electric organ discharge in Gymnotus carapo. I. Morphology and innervation of the electric organ. J Comp Physiol A 165: 343-351
45. Zakon HH (1993) Weakly electric fish as model systems for studying long-term steroid action on neural circuits. Brain Behav Evol 42: 242-251
46. Zakon HH, Thomas P, Van HY (1991) Electric organ discharge frequency and plasma steroid levels during gonadal recrudescence in a natural population of the weakly electric fish Sternopygus macrurus. J Comp Physiol A 169: 493-499