Current Biology
Volume 28, Issue 13, 9 July 2018, Pages R744-R746
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Communication: Potassium Channels Define the Dialect

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Weakly electric fishes use electric pulses to interact with conspecifics, but the molecular origin of species-specific communication is unknown. A new study shows that some properties of the electric fish ‘language’ are dictated by the activity of a voltage-gated potassium channel in electrocytes.

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