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Zakon et al. and Arnegard et al. demonstrated that in both gymnotiforms and mormyroids, the same sodium channel α-subunit paralog (gene duplicate) was co-opted from skeletal muscle for exclusive expression in myogenic electric organs (EOmyo).
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- Comparable Ages for the Independent Origins of Electrogenesis in ... journals.plos.org via serper
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- Gymnotiformes concept
- skeletal muscle concept
- Mormyroids concept