Echo response to chirping in the weakly electric brown ghost knifefish (apteronotus leptorhynchus): Role of frequency and amplitude modulations

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 498-508

  Salgado, José Antonio Gama ^a   Zupanc, Günther K H ^a,b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMPLITUDE; BASELINE CONDITIONS; ECHO SOUNDER; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL; TELEOST;

APTERONOTUS LEPTORHYNCHUS; GYMNOTIFORMES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 79958801860     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: 14803283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z11-014     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Bastian, J. 1981. Electrolocation. I. How the electroreceptors of Apteronotus albifrons code for moving objects and other electrical stimuli. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 144(4): 465-479. doi:10.1007/BF01326832.
2. Bastian, J., Schniederjan, S., and Nguyenkim, J. 2001. Arginine vasotocin modulates a sexually dimorphic communciation behavior in the weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J. Exp. Biol. 204(11): 1909-1923. PMID:11441033.
3. Benda, J., Longtin, A., and Maler, L. 2005. Spike-frequency adaptation separates transient communication signals from background oscillations. J. Neurosci. 25(9): 2312-2321. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4795-04.2005. PMID:15745957.
4. Bullock, T.H. 1969. Species differences in effect of electroreceptor input on electric organ pacemakers and other aspects of behavior in electric fish. Brain Behav. Evol. 2(2): 85-118. doi:10.1159/000125815.
5. Bullock, T.H., Behrend, K., and Heiligenberg, W. 1975. Comparison of the jamming avoidance responses in gymnotoid and gymnarchid electric fish: a case of convergent evolution of behavior and its sensory basis. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 103(1): 97-121. doi:10.1007/BF01380047.
6. Dulka, J.G., and Maler, L. 1994. Testosterone modulates female chirping behavior in the weakly electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 174: 331-343.
7. Dunlap, K.D., Thomas, P., and Zakon, H.H. 1998. Diversity of sexual dimorphism in electrocommunication signals and its androgen regulation in a genus of electric fish, Apteronotus. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 183(1): 77-86. doi:10.1007/s003590050236. PMID:9691480.
8. Dye, J. 1987. Dynamics and stimulus-dependence of pacemaker control during behavioral modulations in the weakly electric fish, Apteronotus. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 161(2): 175-185. doi:10.1007/BEF00615239. PMID:3625571.
9. Engler, G., and Zupanc, G.K.H. 2001. Differential production of chirping behavior evoked by electrical stimulation of the weakly electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol., 187(9): 747-756. doi:10.1007/s00359-001-0248-8. PMID:11778836.
10. Engler, G., Fogarty, C.M., Banks, J.R., and Zupanc, G.K.H. 2000. Spontaneous modulations of the electric organ discharge in the weakly electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus: a biophysical and behavioral analysis. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 186(7-8): 645-660. doi:10.1007/s003590000118.PMID:11016781.
11. Hagiwara, S., Szabo, T., and Enger, P.S. 1965. Electroreceptor mechanisms in a high-frequency weakly electric fish, Sternarchus albifrons. J. Neurophysiol. 28(5): 784-799. PMID:5867879.
12. Hupé, G.J., and Lewis, J.E. 2008. Electrocommunication signals in free swimming brown ghost knifefish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J. Exp. Biol. 211(10): 1657-1667. doi:10.1242/jeb.013516.PMID:18456893.
13. Hupé, G.J., Lewis, J.E., and Benda, J. 2008. The effect of difference frequency on electrocommunication: chirp production and encoding in a species of weakly electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J. Physiol. Paris, 102(4-6): 164-172. doi:10.1016/j.jphysparis. 2008.10.013. PMID:18984046.
14. Knudsen, E.I. 1975. Spatial aspects of the electric fields generated by weakly electric fish. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 99(2): 103-118. doi:10.1007/BF00618178.
15. Kramer, B. 1987. The sexually dimorphic jamming avoidance response in the electric fish Eigenmannia (Teleostei, Gymnotiformes). J. Exp. Biol. 130: 39-62.
16. Kramer, B., and Kaunzinger, I. 1991. Electrosensory frequency and intensity discrimination in the wave-type electric fish Eigenmannia. J. Exp. Biol. 161: 43-59.
17. Maler, L., and Ellis, W.G. 1987. Inter-male aggressive signals in weakly electric fish are modulated by monoamines. Behav. Brain Res. 25(1): 75-81. doi:10.1016/0166-4328(87)90046-5. PMID: 3620087.
18. Marsat, G., and Maler, L. 2010. Neural heterogeneity and efficient population codes for communication signals. J. Neurophysiol. 104(5): 2543-2555. doi:10.1152/jn.00256.2010. PMID:20631220.
19. Meyer, J.H., Leong, M., and Keller, C.H. 1987. Hormone-induced and maturational changes in electric organ discharges and electroreceptor tuning in the weakly electric fish Apteronotus. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 160(3): 385-394. doi:10.1007/BF00613028. PMID:3572854.
20. Moortgat, K.T., Keller, C.H., Bullock, T.H., and Sejnowski, T.J. 1998. Submicrosecond pacemaker precision is behaviorally modulated: the gymnotiform electromotor pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95(8): 4684-4689. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.8.4684. PMID:9539799.
21. Nelson, M.E., Xu, Z., and Payne, J.R. 1997. Characterization and modeling of P-type electrosensory afferent responses to amplitude modulations in a wave-type electric fish. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 181(5): 532-534 doi:10.1007/s003590050137. PMID:9373958.
22. Scheich, H., Bullock, T.H., and Hamstra, R.H., Jr. 1973. Coding properties of two classes of afferent nerve fibers: high-frequency electroreceptors in the electric fish, Eigenmannia. J. Neurophysiol. 36(1): 39-60. PMID:4705666.
23. Triefenbach, F.A., and Zakon, H.H. 2008. Changes in signaling during agonistic interactions between male weakly electric knifefish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. Anim. Behav. 75(4): 1263-1272. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.027.
24. Westby, G.W.M., and Kirschbaum, F. 1981. Sex differences in the electric organ discharge of Eigenmannia virescens and the effect of gonadal maturation. In Sensory physiology of aquatic lower vertebrates. Edited by T. Szabó and G. Czéh. Adv. Physiol. Sci. Vol. 31. pp. 179-194. Pergamon Press, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest.
25. Zakon, H., Oestreich, J., Tallarovic, S., and Triefenbach, F. 2002. EOD modulations of brown ghost electric fish: JARs, chirps, rises, and dips. J. Physiol. Paris, 96(5-6): 451-458 doi:10.1016/S0928-4257(03)00012-3. PMID:14692493.
26. Zupanc, G.K.H. 2002. From oscillators to modulators: behavioral and neural control of modulations of the electric organ discharge in the gymnotiform fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J. Physiol. Paris, 96(5-6): 459-472. doi:10.1016/S0928-4257(03)00002-0.PMID:14692494.
27. Zupanc, G.K.H., and Bullock, T.H. 2005. From electrogenesis to electroreception: an overview. In Electroreception. Edited by T.H. Bullock, C.D. Hopkins, E.N. Popper, and R.R. Fay. Springer- Verlag, New York. pp. 5-46.
28. Zupanc, G.K.H., and Maler, L. 1993. Evoked chirping in the weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus: a quantitative biophysical analysis. Can. J. Zool. 71(11): 2301-2310. doi:10.1139/z93-323.
29. Zupanc, G.K.H., and Maler, L. 1997. Neuronal control of behavioral plasticity: the prepacemaker nucleus of weakly electric gymnotiform fish. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 180(2): 99-111. doi:10.1007/s003590050031.
30. Zupanc, M.M., Engler, G., Midson, A., Oxberry, H., Hurst, L.A., Symon, M.R., and Zupanc, G.K.H. 2001. Light-dark-controlled changes in modulations of the electric organ discharge in theteleost Apteronotus leptorhynchus. Anim. Behav. 62(6): 1119-1128. doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1867.
31. Zupanc, G.K.H., Banks, J.R., Engler, G., and Beason, R.C. 2003. Temperature dependence of the electric organ discharge in weakly electric fish. In Exploring animal behavior in laboratory and field: an hypothesis-testing approach to the development, causation, function, and evolution of animal behavior. Edited by B.J. Ploger and K. Yasukawa. Academic Press, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. pp. 85-94.
32. Zupanc, G.K.H., Sîrbulescu, R.F., Nichols, A., and Ilies, I. 2006. Electric interactions through chirping behavior in the weakly electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 192(2): 159-173. doi:10.1007/s00359-005-0058-5. PMID:16247622.