How electric fish were able to evolve electric organs

The researchers confirmed that the genetic control region they discovered only controls the expression of a sodium channel gene in muscle and no other tissue. In this image, a green fluorescent protein lights up only in the trunk muscle of a developing zebrafish embryo. Credit: Mary Swartz/Johann Eberhart/University of Texas at Austin. Electric organs help …

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