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SUBMITTER: Swapna I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067922 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Swapna Immani I Ghezzi Alfredo A York Julia M JM Markham Michael R MR Halling D Brent DB Lu Ying Y Gallant Jason R JR Zakon Harold H HH
Current biology : CB 20180621 13
Molecular variation contributes to the evolution of adaptive phenotypes, though it is often difficult to understand precisely how. The adaptively significant electric organ discharge behavior of weakly electric fish is the direct result of biophysical membrane properties set by ion channels. Here, we describe a voltage-gated potassium-channel gene in African electric fishes that is under positive selection and highly expressed in the electric organ. The channel produced by this gene shortens ele ...[more]