@article {647,
	title = {A review of the reproductive biology of mormyroid~fishes: An emerging model for biomedical research},
	journal = {Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental EvolutionJournal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental EvolutionJ Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol},
	volume = {342},
	year = {2024},
	month = {2024/05/01},
	pages = {144 - 163},
	publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd},
	abstract = {Abstract Mormyroidea is a superfamily of weakly electric African fishes with great potential as a model in a variety of biomedical research areas including systems neuroscience, muscle cell and craniofacial development, ion channel biophysics, and flagellar/ciliary biology. However, they are currently difficult to breed in the laboratory setting, which is essential for any tractable model organism. As such, there is a need to better understand the reproductive biology of mormyroids to breed them more reliably in the laboratory to effectively use them as a biomedical research model. This review seeks to (1)~briefly highlight the biomedically relevant phenotypes of mormyroids and (2) compile information about mormyroid reproduction including sex differences, breeding season, sexual maturity, gonads, gametes, and courtship/spawning behaviors. We also highlight areas of mormyroid reproductive biology that are currently unexplored and/or have the potential for further investigation that may provide insights into more successful mormyroid laboratory breeding methods.},
	keywords = {biomedicine, electric fish, mormyrid, reproduction, teleost},
	isbn = {1552-5007},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23242},
	author = {Saunders, Alyssa N. and Jason R. Gallant}
}
@article {539,
	title = {Electric Fish Genomics: Progress, Prospects, and New Tools for Neuroethology},
	journal = {Journal of Physiology-Paris},
	year = {2016},
	month = {Jan-10-2016},
	abstract = {<p>Electric fish have served as a model system in biology since the 18th century, providing deep insight into the nature of bioelectrogenesis, the molecular structure of the synapse, and brain circuitry underlying complex behavior. Neuroethologists have collected extensive phenotypic data that span biological levels of analysis from molecules to ecosystems. This phenotypic data, together with genomic resources obtained over the past decades, have motivated new and exciting hypotheses that position the weakly electric fish model to address fundamental 21st century biological questions. This review article considers the molecular data collected for weakly electric fish over the past three decades, and the insights that data of this nature has motivated. For readers relatively new to molecular genetics techniques, we also provide a table of terminology aimed at clarifying the numerous acronyms and techniques that accompany this field. Next, we pose a research agenda for expanding genomic resources for electric fish research over the next 10 years. We conclude by considering some of the exciting research prospects for neuroethology that electric fish genomics may offer over the coming decades, if the electric fish community is successful in these endeavors.</p>
},
	keywords = {CRISPR, electric fish, genome editing, genomics, transcriptomics, transgenics},
	issn = {09284257},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jphysparis.2016.10.003},
	url = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0928425716300079},
	author = {Pitchers, William R. and Savvas J. Constantinou and Losilla, Mauricio and Jason R. Gallant}
}
