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Parmentier E, Herrel A, Banse M, Hornstra H, Bertucci F, Lecchini D. Diving into dual functionality: Swim bladder muscles in lionfish for buoyancy and sonic capabilities. J Anat 2024; 244:249-259. [PMID: 37891703 PMCID: PMC10780155 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Although the primary function of the swim bladder is buoyancy, it is also involved in hearing, and it can be associated with sonic muscles for voluntary sound production. The use of the swim bladder and associated muscles in sound production could be an exaptation since this is not its first function. We however lack models showing that the same muscles can be used in both movement and sound production. In this study, we investigate the functions of the muscles associated with the swim bladder in different Pteroinae (lionfish) species. Our results indicate that Pterois volitans, P. radiata and Dendrochirus zebra are able to produce long low-frequency hums when disturbed. The deliberate movements of the fin spines during sound production suggest that these sounds may serve as aposematic signals. In P. volitans and P. radiata, hums can be punctuated by intermittent louder pulses called knocks. Analysis of sonic features, morphology, electromyography and histology strongly suggest that these sounds are most likely produced by muscles closely associated with the swim bladder. These muscles originate from the neurocranium and insert on the posterior part of the swim bladder. Additionally, cineradiography supports the hypothesis that these same muscles are involved in altering the swim bladder's length and angle, thereby influencing the pitch of the fish body and participating in manoeuvring and locomotion movements. Fast contraction of the muscle should be related to sound production whereas sustained contractions allows modifications in swim bladder shape and body pitch.
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- Eric Parmentier
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Département Adaptations du Vivant, Bâtiment, UMR 7179 MECADEV C.N.R. S/M.N.H.N., d'Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- UMR MARBEC, IRD-CNRS-IFREMER-INRAE-University of Montpellier, Sète, France
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- PSL University, EPHE-UPVD-CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Moorea, French Polynesia
- Laboratoire d'Excellence "CORAIL", Perpignan, France
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Raick X, Godinho AL, Kurchevski G, Huby A, Parmentier É. Bioacoustics supports genus identification in piranhasa). THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2023; 154:2203-2210. [PMID: 37815413 DOI: 10.1121/10.0021308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/11/2023]
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In different teleost species, sound production can utilize specific coding schemes to avoid confusion between species during communication. Piranhas are vocal Neotropical fishes, and both Pygocentrus and Serrasalmus produce similar pulsed sounds using the same sound-producing mechanism. In this study, we analysed the sounds of three Pygocentrus and nine Serrasalmus species to determine whether sounds can be used to discriminate piranha species at both the species and genus levels. Our analysis of temporal and frequency data supports the idea that the sounds of Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus species are species specific, and that different acoustic features can be used to differentiate taxa at the genus level. Specifically, the sounds of Serrasalmus species are shorter, louder, and have a shorter pulse period (as determined after correction for standard length). This suggests that sounds can be used to support taxonomy at the genus level as well as the species level.
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- Xavier Raick
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, 4000, Belgium
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- Fish Passage Center, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo-Horizonte, 31270-901, MG, Brazil
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- Fish Passage Center, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo-Horizonte, 31270-901, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, 4000, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, 4000, Belgium
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Rodriguez-Morales R, Gonzalez-Lerma P, Yuiska A, Han JH, Guerra Y, Crisostomo L, Keene AC, Duboue ER, Kowalko JE. Convergence on reduced aggression through shared behavioral traits in multiple populations of Astyanax mexicanus. BMC Ecol Evol 2022; 22:116. [PMID: 36241984 PMCID: PMC9563175 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-022-02069-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Results Conclusion Supplementary information
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- Roberto Rodriguez-Morales
- grid.259029.50000 0004 1936 746XDepartment of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, 18015 Bethlehem, PA USA
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- grid.255951.fDepartment of Integrative Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, 33431 Boca Raton, FL USA
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- grid.255951.fCharles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, 33431 Boca Raton, FL USA
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- grid.255951.fCharles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, 33431 Boca Raton, FL USA ,grid.255951.fProgram in Integrative Biology and Neuroscience, Florida Atlantic University, 33458 Jupiter, FL USA
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- grid.255951.fHarriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, 33458 Jupiter, FL USA
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- grid.255951.fHarriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, 33458 Jupiter, FL USA
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- grid.264756.40000 0004 4687 2082Department of Biology, Texas A&M, College Station, TX USA
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- grid.255951.fCharles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, 33431 Boca Raton, FL USA ,grid.255951.fHarriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, 33458 Jupiter, FL USA
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- grid.259029.50000 0004 1936 746XDepartment of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, 18015 Bethlehem, PA USA
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Raick X, Thelen N, Compère P, Parmentier E. Ultrastructure of sonic muscles of piranhas (Serrasalmidae). J Morphol 2022; 283:395-405. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Revised: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Xavier Raick
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, Freshwater and Oceanic Science Unit of Research, University of Liège, B6c Allée du 6 août, 4000 Liège Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Biology, GIGA‐R, University of Liège, Giga‐Neurosciences, Avenue Hippocrates 15, 4000 Liège Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, Freshwater and Oceanic Science Unit of Research, University of Liège, B6c Allée du 6 août, 4000 Liège Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, Freshwater and Oceanic Science Unit of Research, University of Liège, B6c Allée du 6 août, 4000 Liège Belgium
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Banse M, Chagnaud BP, Huby A, Parmentier E, Kéver L. Sound production in piranhas is associated with modifications of the spinal locomotor pattern. J Exp Biol 2021; 224:260574. [PMID: 33942099 PMCID: PMC8126449 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
In piranhas, sounds are produced through the vibration of the swim bladder wall caused by the contraction of bilateral sonic muscles. Because they are solely innervated by spinal nerves, these muscles likely evolved from the locomotor hypaxial musculature. The transition from a neuromuscular system initially shaped for slow movements (locomotion) to a system that requires a high contraction rate (sound production) was accompanied with major peripheral structural modifications, yet the associated neural adjustments remain to this date unclear. To close this gap, we investigated the activity of both the locomotor and the sonic musculature using electromyography. The comparison between the activation patterns of both systems highlighted modifications of the neural motor pathway: (1) a transition from a bilateral alternating pattern to a synchronous activation pattern, (2) a switch from a slow- to a high-frequency regime, and (3) an increase in the synchrony of motor neuron activation. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that sound features correspond to the activity of the sonic muscles, as both the variation patterns of periods and amplitudes of sounds highly correspond to those seen in the sonic muscle electromyograms (EMGsonic). Assuming that the premotor network for sound production in piranhas is of spinal origin, our results show that the neural circuit associated with spinal motor neurons transitioned from the slow alternating pattern originally used for locomotion to a much faster simultaneous activation pattern to generate vocal signals.
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- Marine Banse
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 82152 Planegg, Germany.,Institute for Biology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.,Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 82152 Planegg, Germany
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Parmentier E, Marucco Fuentes E, Millot M, Raick X, Thiry M. Sound production, hearing sensitivity, and in-depth study of the sound-producing muscles in the cowfish (Lactoria cornuta). J Anat 2020; 238:956-969. [PMID: 33150619 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The ability to produce sounds has been reported in various Ostraciidae but not deeply studied. In some Ostracion species, two different sound-producing muscles allow these boxfishes to produce two different kinds of sounds in a sequence. This study investigates sound production in another Indo-Pacific species, the longhorn cowfish Lactoria cornuta that also possesses two pairs of sonic muscles associated with the swim bladder: extrinsic sonic muscles (ESMs) and intrinsic sonic muscles (ISMs). The cowfish produces two kinds of sounds called hums and clicks. Hums are made of trains of low amplitude pulses that last for long periods of time, suggesting that they are produced by fatigue-resistant muscles, whereas clicks correspond to shorter sounds with greater amplitude than the hums, suggesting that they result from more powerful contractions. Ultra-structural differences are found between extrinsic and intrinsic sonic muscles. According to features such as long sarcomeres, long I-bands, a high number of mitochondria, and a proliferation of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), ESMs would be able to produce fast, strong, and short contractions corresponding to clicks (the shortest sounds with the greatest amplitude). ISMs have the thinnest cells, the smallest number of myofilaments that have long I-bands, the highest volume of mitochondria, and well-developed SR supporting these muscles; these features should generate fast and prolonged contractions that could correspond to the hums that can be produced over long periods of time. A concluding figure shows clear comparisons of the different fibers that were studied in L. cornuta. This study also compared the call features of each sound with the cowfish's hearing ability and supports L. cornuta was more sensitive to frequencies ranging between at least 100 and 400 Hz with thresholds of 128-143 dB re 1 µPa over this range, meaning that they are sensitive to the frequencies produced by conspecifics.
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- Eric Parmentier
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, AFFISH-RC, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Tissular Biology, GIGA-Neurosciences, Cell Biology L3, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, AFFISH-RC, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, AFFISH-RC, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Tissular Biology, GIGA-Neurosciences, Cell Biology L3, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Raick X, Huby A, Kurchevski G, Godinho AL, Parmentier É. Use of bioacoustics in species identification: Piranhas from genus Pygocentrus (Teleostei: Serrasalmidae) as a case study. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0241316. [PMID: 33119694 PMCID: PMC7595327 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The genus Pygocentrus contains three valid piranha species (P. cariba, P. nattereri and P. piraya) that are allopatric in tropical and subtropical freshwater environments of South America. This study uses acoustic features to differentiate the three species. Sounds were recorded in P. cariba, two populations of P. nattereri (red- and yellow-bellied) and P. piraya; providing sound description for the first time in P. cariba and P. piraya. Calls of P. cariba were distinct from all the other studied populations. Red- and yellow-bellied P. nattereri calls were different from each other but yellow-bellied P. nattereri calls were similar to those of P. piraya. These observations can be explained by considering that the studied specimens of yellow-bellied P. nattereri have been wrongly identified and are actually a sub-population of P. piraya. Morphological examinations and recent fish field recordings in the Araguari River strongly support our hypothesis. This study shows for the first time that sounds can be used to discover identification errors in the teleost taxa.
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- Xavier Raick
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, Freshwater and Oceanic Science Unit of Research, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, Freshwater and Oceanic Science Unit of Research, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Fish Passage Center, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Fish Passage Center, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, Freshwater and Oceanic Science Unit of Research, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Schartl M, Kneitz S, Volkoff H, Adolfi M, Schmidt C, Fischer P, Minx P, Tomlinson C, Meyer A, Warren WC. The Piranha Genome Provides Molecular Insight Associated to Its Unique Feeding Behavior. Genome Biol Evol 2020; 11:2099-2106. [PMID: 31282935 PMCID: PMC6681833 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
The piranha enjoys notoriety due to its infamous predatory behavior but much is still not understood about its evolutionary origins and the underlying molecular mechanisms for its unusual feeding biology. We sequenced and assembled the red-bellied piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri) genome to aid future phenotypic and genetic investigations. The assembled draft genome is similar to other related fishes in repeat composition and gene count. Our evaluation of genes under positive selection suggests candidates for adaptations of piranhas’ feeding behavior in neural functions, behavior, and regulation of energy metabolism. In the fasted brain, we find genes differentially expressed that are involved in lipid metabolism and appetite regulation as well as genes that may control the aggression/boldness behavior of hungry piranhas. Our first analysis of the piranha genome offers new insight and resources for the study of piranha biology and for feeding motivation and starvation in other organisms.
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- Manfred Schartl
- Physiologische Chemie, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg, Germany.,Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, University Clinic Würzburg, Germany.,Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University.,Department of Biology, Texas A&M University
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- Physiologische Chemie, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada.,Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada
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- Physiologische Chemie, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg, Germany
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- Physiologische Chemie, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg, Germany
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- Physiologische Chemie, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg, Germany
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- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine
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- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine
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- Chair in Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany
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- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine.,Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri
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Rosner E, Chagnaud BP, Wullimann MF. Serotonin systems in three socially communicating teleost species, the grunting toadfish (Allenbatrachus grunniens), a South American marine catfish (Ariopsis seemanni), and the upside-down catfish (Synodontis nigriventris). J Chem Neuroanat 2019; 104:101708. [PMID: 31705955 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2019.101708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 10/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We investigated immunohistochemically the distribution of serotonergic cell populations in three teleost species (one toadfish, Allenbatrachus grunniens, and two catfishes, Synodontis nigriventris and Ariopsis seemanni). All three species exhibited large populations of 5-HT positive neurons in the paraventricular organ (PVO) and the dorsal (Hd) and caudal (Hc) periventricular hypothalamic zones, plus a smaller one in the periventricular pretectum, a few cells in the pineal stalk, and - only in catfishes - in the preoptic region. Furthermore, the rhombencephalic superior and inferior raphe always contained ample serotonergic cells. In each species, a neuronal mass extended into the hypothalamic lateral recess. Only in the toadfish, did this intraventricular structure contain serotonergic cells and arise from Hd, whereas in the catfishes it emerged from medially and represents the dorsal tuberal nucleus seen in other catfishes as well. Serotonergic cells in PVO, Hd and Hc were liquor-contacting. Those of the PVO extended into the midline area of the periventricular posterior tubercular nucleus in both catfishes. Dopaminergic, liquor-contacting neurons were additionally investigated using an antibody against tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in S. nigriventris showing that TH was never co-localized with serotonin. Because TH antibodies are known to reveal mostly or only the TH1 enzyme, we hypothesize that th1-expressing dopamine cells (unlike th2-expressing ones) do not co-localize with serotonin. Since the three investigated species engage in social communication using swim bladder associated musculature, we investigated the serotonergic innervation of the hindbrain vocal or electromotor nuclei initiating the social signal. We found in all three species serotonergic fibers seemingly originating from close-by serotonergic neurons of inferior raphe or anterior spinal cord. Minor differences appear to be rather species-specific than dependent on the type of social communication.
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- Elisabeth Rosner
- Department Biologie II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Straße 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany; Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences Munich, Großhaderner Straße 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Institute for Biology, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria.
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- Department Biologie II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Straße 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany; Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences Munich, Großhaderner Straße 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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Borie A, Hungria DB, Ali H, Doria CR, Fine ML, Travassos PE. Disturbance calls of five migratory Characiformes species and advertisement choruses in Amazon spawning sites. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2019; 95:820-832. [PMID: 31215642 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Species-specific disturbance calls of five commercially-important characiform species are described, the Curimatidae commonly called branquinhas: Potamorhina latior, Potamorhina altamazonica and Psectrogaster amazonica; Prochilodontidae: jaraquí Semaprochilodus insignis and curimatã Prochilodus nigricans. All species have a two-chambered swimbladder and the sonic mechanism, present exclusively in males, utilises hypertrophied red muscles between ribs that adhere to the anterior chamber. The number of muscles is unusually plastic across species and varies from 1 to 4 pairs suggesting considerable evolution in an otherwise conservative system. Advertisement calls are produced in river confluences in the Madeira Basin during the high-water mating season (January-February). Disturbance calls and sampling allowed recognition of underwater advertisement choruses from P. latior, S. insignis and P. nigricans. The advertisement calls of the first two species have largely similar characteristics and they mate in partially overlapping areas in the Guaporé River. However, P. latior sounds have a lower dominant frequency and it prefers to call from river confluences whereas S. insignis shoals occur mostly in the main river channel adjacent to the confluence. These results help identify and differentiate underwater sounds and evaluate breeding areas during the courtship of commercially important characids likely to be affected by two hydroelectric dams.
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- Alfredo Borie
- Departamento de Engenharia de Pesca, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil
- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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Mélotte G, Raick X, Vigouroux R, Parmentier E. Origin and evolution of sound production in Serrasalmidae. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Among piranhas, sound production is known in carnivorous species, whereas herbivorous species were thought to be mute. Given that these carnivorous sonic species have a complex sonic apparatus, we hypothesize that intermediate forms could be found in other serrasalmid species. The results highlight the evolutionary transition from a simple sound-producing mechanism without specialized sonic structures to a sonic mechanism involving large, fast-contracting sonic muscles. Hypaxial muscles in basal herbivores primarily serve locomotion, but some fibres cause sound production during swimming accelerations, meaning that these muscles have gained a dual function. Sound production therefore seems to have been acquired through exaptation, i.e. the development of a new function (sound production) in existing structures initially shaped for a different purpose (locomotion). In more derived species (Catoprion and Pygopristis), some fibres are distinguishable from typical hypaxial muscles and insert directly on the swimbladder. At this stage, the primary function (locomotion) is lost in favour of the secondary function (sound production). In the last stage, the muscles and insertion sites are larger and the innervation involves more spinal nerves, improving calling abilities. In serrasalmids, the evolution of acoustic communication is characterized initially by exaptation followed by adaptive evolution.
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- Geoffrey Mélotte
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UR FOCUS, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UR FOCUS, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- HYDRECO Guyane, Laboratoire Environnement de Petit Saut, Kourou Cedex, French Guiana
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UR FOCUS, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Putland RL, Montgomery JC, Radford CA. Ecology of fish hearing. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2019; 95:39-52. [PMID: 30447064 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Underwater sound is directional and can convey important information about the surrounding environment or the animal emitting the sound. Therefore, sound is a major sensory channel for fishes and plays a key role in many life-history strategies. The effect of anthropogenic noise on aquatic life, which may be causing homogenisation or fragmentation of biologically important signals underwater is of growing concern. In this review we discuss the role sound plays in the ecology of fishes, basic anatomical and physiological adaptations for sound reception and production, the effects of anthropogenic noise and how fishes may be coping to changes in their environment, to put the ecology of fish hearing into the context of the modern underwater soundscape.
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- Rosalyn L Putland
- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Department of Biology, Swenson Science Building, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
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- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Bolgan M, Soulard J, Di Iorio L, Gervaise C, Lejeune P, Gobert S, Parmentier E. Sea chordophones make the mysterious /Kwa/ sound: identification of the emitter of the dominant fish sound in Mediterranean seagrass meadows. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 222:jeb.196931. [PMID: 31097606 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.196931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Accepted: 05/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The /Kwa/ vocalization dominates the soundscape of Posidonia oceanica meadows but the identity of the species emitting this peculiar fish sound remains a mystery. Information from sounds recorded in the wild indicates that the emitting candidates should be abundant, nocturnal and benthic. Scorpaena spp. combine all these characteristics. This study used an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the vocal abilities of Scorpaena spp.; morphological, histological and electrophysiological examinations were interpreted together with visual and acoustic recordings conducted in semi-natural conditions. All observed Scorpaena spp. (S. porcus, S. scrofa and S. notata) share the same sonic apparatus at the level of the abdominal region. This apparatus, present in both males and females, consists of 3 bilaterally symmetrical muscular bundles, having 3-5 long tendons, which insert on ventral bony apophyses of the vertebral bodies. In all chordophones (stringed instruments), the frequency of the vibration is dependent on the string properties and not on the rate at which the strings are plucked. Similarly, we suggest that each of the 3-5 tendons found in the sonic mechanism of Scorpaena spp. acts as a frequency multiplier of the muscular bundle contractions, where the resonant properties of the tendons determine the peak frequency of the /Kwa/, its frequency spectra and pseudo-harmonic profile. The variability in the length and number of tendons found between and within species could explain the high variability of /Kwa/ acoustic features recorded in the wild. Finally, acoustic and behavioural experiments confirmed that Scorpaena spp. can emit the /Kwa/ sound.
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- Marta Bolgan
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology (Department of Biology, Ecology & Evolution), FOCUS, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie B6c, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology (Department of Biology, Ecology & Evolution), FOCUS, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie B6c, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- CHORUS Institute, INP Phelma Minatec, Parvis Louis Néel 3, 38016 Grenoble, France
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- CHORUS Institute, INP Phelma Minatec, Parvis Louis Néel 3, 38016 Grenoble, France
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- Station de Recherches Sous-Marines et Océanographiques, Pointe Revellata BP33, 20260 Calvi, France
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- Station de Recherches Sous-Marines et Océanographiques, Pointe Revellata BP33, 20260 Calvi, France.,Laboratoire d'Océanologie, Centre MARE (Department of Biology, Ecology & Evolution), FOCUS, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie B6c, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology (Department of Biology, Ecology & Evolution), FOCUS, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie B6c, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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Simultaneous production of two kinds of sounds in relation with sonic mechanism in the boxfish Ostracion meleagris and O. cubicus. Sci Rep 2019; 9:4962. [PMID: 30899084 PMCID: PMC6428821 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41198-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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In fishes, sonic abilities for communication purpose usually involve a single mechanism. We describe here the sonic mechanism and sounds in two species of boxfish, the spotted trunkfish Ostracion meleagris and the yellow boxfish Ostracion cubicus. The sonic mechanism utilizes a T-shaped swimbladder with a swimbladder fenestra and two separate sonic muscle pairs. Extrinsic vertical muscles attach to the vertebral column and the swimbladder. Perpendicularly and below these muscles, longitudinal intrinsic muscles cover the swimbladder fenestra. Sounds are exceptional since they are made of two distinct types produced in a sequence. In both species, humming sounds consist of long series (up to 45 s) of hundreds of regular low-amplitude pulses. Hums are often interspersed with irregular click sounds with an amplitude that is ten times greater in O. meleagris and forty times greater in O. cubicus. There is no relationship between fish size and many acoustic characteristics because muscle contraction rate dictates the fundamental frequency. We suggest that hums and clicks are produced by either separate muscles or by a combination of the two. The mechanism complexity supports an investment of boxfish in this communication channel and underline sounds as having important functions in their way of life.
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Mascolino S, Mariani S, Benvenuto C. Behavioural responses in a congested sea: an observational study on a coastal nest-guarding fish. THE EUROPEAN ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2019.1699611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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- S. Mascolino
- UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
- School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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- School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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Boyle KS, Herrel A. Relative size variation of the otoliths, swim bladder, and Weberian apparatus structures in piranhas and pacus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) with different ecologies and its implications for the detection of sound stimuli. J Morphol 2018; 279:1849-1871. [PMID: 30443931 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 08/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The Weberian apparatus of otophysan fishes confers acute hearing that is hypothesized to allow these fishes to assess the environment and to find food resources. The otophysan family Serrasalmidae (piranhas and pacus) includes species known to feed on falling fruits and seeds (frugivore/granivores) that splash in rivers, herbivorous species associated with torrents and rapids (rheophiles), and carnivores that feed aggressively within shoals. Relevant sound stimuli may vary among these ecological groups and hearing may be tuned to different cues among species. In this context, we examined size variation of the Weberian ossicles, swim bladder chambers, and otoliths of 20 serrasalmid species from three broad feeding ecologies: frugivore/granivores, rheophiles, and carnivores. We performed 3D-reconstructions of high resolution tomographic data (μCT) from 54 museum specimens to estimate the size of these elements. We then tested for an ecology effect on covariation of auditory structure size and body size and accounted for phylogeny with phylogenetic generalized least squares analyses. Among ecological groups, we observed differences in relative sizes of otoliths associated with sound pressure and particle motion detection, and variation in Weberian ossicle size that may impact sound transmission. Rheophiles, which live in noisy environments, possess the strongest modifications of these structures.
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- Kelly S Boyle
- Département Adaptation du vivant, UMR 7179 C.N.R.S./M.N.H.N, Case postale 55, Paris Cedex 5, France
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- Département Adaptation du vivant, UMR 7179 C.N.R.S./M.N.H.N, Case postale 55, Paris Cedex 5, France
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Kruiper R, Vincent JFV, Abraham E, Soar RC, Konstas I, Chen-Burger J, Desmulliez MPY. Towards a Design Process for Computer-Aided Biomimetics. Biomimetics (Basel) 2018; 3:biomimetics3030014. [PMID: 31105236 PMCID: PMC6352681 DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics3030014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Computer-Aided Biomimetics (CAB) tools aim to support the integration of relevant biological knowledge into biomimetic problem-solving processes. Specific steps of biomimetic processes that require support include the identification, selection and abstraction of relevant biological analogies. Existing CAB tools usually aim to support these steps by describing biological systems in terms of functions, although engineering functions do not map naturally to biological functions. Consequentially, the resulting static, functional view provides an incomplete understanding of biological processes, which are dynamic, cyclic and self-organizing. This paper proposes an alternative approach that revolves around the concept of trade-offs. The aim is to include the biological context, such as environmental characteristics, that may provide information crucial to the transfer of biological information to an engineering application. The proposed design process is exemplified by an illustrative case study.
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- Ruben Kruiper
- Deparment of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
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- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
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- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
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- School of Architecture Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, 50 Shakespeare St, Nottingham NG1 4FQ, UK.
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- Deparment of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
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- Deparment of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
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- School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
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Mélotte G, Parmentier E, Michel C, Herrel A, Boyle K. Hearing capacities and morphology of the auditory system in Serrasalmidae (Teleostei: Otophysi). Sci Rep 2018; 8:1281. [PMID: 29352233 PMCID: PMC5775314 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19812-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 01/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Like all otophysan fishes, serrasalmids (piranhas and relatives) possess a Weberian apparatus that improves their hearing capacities. We compared the hearing abilities among eight species of serrasalmids having different life-history traits: herbivorous vs. carnivorous and vocal vs. mute species. We also made 3D reconstructions of the auditory system to detect potential morphological variations associated with hearing ability. The hearing structures were similar in overall shape and position. All the species hear in the same frequency range and only slight differences were found in hearing thresholds. The eight species have their range of best hearing in the lower frequencies (50–900 Hz). In vocal serrasalmids, the range of best hearing covers the frequency spectrum of their sounds. However, the broad overlap in hearing thresholds among species having different life-history traits (herbivorous vs. carnivorous and vocal vs. non-vocal species) suggests that hearing ability is likely not related to the capacity to emit acoustic signals or to the diet, i.e. the ability to detect sounds is not associated with a given kind of food. The inner ear appears to be highly conservative in this group suggesting that it is shaped by phylogenetic history or by other kinds of constraints such as predator avoidance.
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- Geoffrey Mélotte
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000, Liège, Belgium.
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000, Liège, Belgium
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- Aquarium-Muséum, Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution, Université de Liège, Institut de Zoologie, Bât I1, 22 quai Van Beneden, B - 4020, Liège, Belgium
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- UMR 7179C.N.R.S./M.N.H.N., Département Adaptations du vivant, 55 Rue Buffon, Case Postale 55, 75005, Paris Cedex, 5, France
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- UMR 7179C.N.R.S./M.N.H.N., Département Adaptations du vivant, 55 Rue Buffon, Case Postale 55, 75005, Paris Cedex, 5, France.,Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, 5871 USA Drive North, Mobile, Alabama, 36688, USA.,Dauphin Island Sea Lab, 101 Bienville Boulevard, Dauphin Island, Alabama, 36528, USA
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Parmentier E, Di Iorio L, Picciulin M, Malavasi S, Lagardère JP, Bertucci F. Consistency of spatiotemporal sound features supports the use of passive acoustics for long-term monitoring. Anim Conserv 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/acv.12362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- E. Parmentier
- Functional and Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory; AFFISH-RC; University of Liège; Liège Belgium
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- Chaire Chorus; Foundation of the Grenoble Institute of Technology; Grenoble France
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- Department of Environmental Sciences; Informatics and Statistics; Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Venice Italy
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- Functional and Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory; AFFISH-RC; University of Liège; Liège Belgium
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- Functional and Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory; AFFISH-RC; University of Liège; Liège Belgium
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Tellechea JS, Fine ML, Norbis W. Passive acoustic monitoring, development of disturbance calls and differentiation of disturbance and advertisement calls in the Argentine croaker Umbrina canosai (Sciaenidae). JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2017; 90:1631-1643. [PMID: 28111744 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 11/30/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Disturbance and advertisement calls of the Argentine croaker Umbrina canosai were recorded from coastal Uruguayan waters. Dissections indicate typical sciaenid extrinsic swimbladder muscles present exclusively in males. Disturbance calls were produced when captive U. canosai were startled, chased with a net or grabbed by the tail. Calls were unusual for sciaenids because each pulse consisted of multiple cycles. The number of cycles per pulse and dominant frequency did not change with U. canosai size, but pulse duration and interpulse interval increased. Advertisement calls were recorded from unseen choruses in the field and confirmed with captive individuals in a large tank. Advertisement calls were recorded throughout the known range of the species in Uruguay indicating a continuous belt of spawning populations. Tank recordings of the same individuals permitted explicit comparisons between the two calls. Advertisement call pulses averaged 2·4 more cycles (11·0-8·6) although pulses of both calls were basically similar as were durations and dominant frequencies. Pulse number, however, differed markedly, averaging 13·6 and 3·4 pulses for disturbance and advertisement calls respectively. Furthermore, disturbance calls were produced as a rapid series with an interpulse interval of 26-31 ms whereas advertisement call patterns were less stereotyped and ranged from <100 to 450 ms. Multicycle pulses distinguished U. canosai from other sympatric sciaenids.
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- J S Tellechea
- Instituto de Biología, Departamento de Biología Animal, Laboratorio de Fisiología de la Reproducción y Ecología de Peces, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica, Igua 4227, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284-2012, U.S.A
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- Instituto de Biología, Departamento de Biología Animal, Laboratorio de Fisiología de la Reproducción y Ecología de Peces, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica, Igua 4227, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Departamento de Biología de Poblaciones, Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos (MGAP), Constituyente 1497, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Fine ML, King TL, Ali H, Sidker N, Cameron TM. Wall structure and material properties cause viscous damping of swimbladder sounds in the oyster toadfish Opsanus tau. Proc Biol Sci 2016; 283:20161094. [PMID: 27798293 PMCID: PMC5095372 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Despite rapid damping, fish swimbladders have been modelled as underwater resonant bubbles. Recent data suggest that swimbladders of sound-producing fishes use a forced rather than a resonant response to produce sound. The reason for this discrepancy has not been formally addressed, and we demonstrate, for the first time, that the structure of the swimbladder wall will affect vibratory behaviour. Using the oyster toadfish Opsanus tau, we find regional differences in bladder thickness, directionality of collagen layers (anisotropic bladder wall structure), material properties that differ between circular and longitudinal directions (stress, strain and Young's modulus), high water content (80%) of the bladder wall and a 300-fold increase in the modulus of dried tissue. Therefore, the swimbladder wall is a viscoelastic structure that serves to damp vibrations and impart directionality, preventing the expression of resonance.
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- Michael L Fine
- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2012, USA
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2012, USA
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2012, USA
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2012, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
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Mélotte G, Vigouroux R, Michel C, Parmentier E. Interspecific variation of warning calls in piranhas: a comparative analysis. Sci Rep 2016; 6:36127. [PMID: 27782184 PMCID: PMC5080574 DOI: 10.1038/srep36127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Fish sounds are known to be species-specific, possessing unique temporal and spectral features. We have recorded and compared sounds in eight piranha species to evaluate the potential role of acoustic communication as a driving force in clade diversification. All piranha species showed the same kind of sound-producing mechanism: sonic muscles originate on vertebrae and attach to a tendon surrounding the bladder ventrally. Contractions of the sound-producing muscles force swimbladder vibration and dictate the fundamental frequency. It results the calling features of the eight piranha species logically share many common characteristics. In all the species, the calls are harmonic sounds composed of multiple continuous cycles. However, the sounds of Serrasalmus elongatus (higher number of cycles and high fundamental frequency) and S. manueli (long cycle periods and low fundamental frequency) are clearly distinguishable from the other species. The sonic mechanism being largely conserved throughout piranha evolution, acoustic communication can hardly be considered as the main driving force in the diversification process. However, sounds of some species are clearly distinguishable despite the short space for variations supporting the need for specific communication. Behavioural studies are needed to clearly understand the eventual role of the calls during spawning events.
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- Geoffrey Mélotte
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- HYDRECO Guyane, Laboratoire Environnement de Petit Saut, B.P. 823-97388 Kourou Cedex, French Guiana
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- Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution, AFFISH Research Center, Université de Liège, Institut de Zoologie, 22 quai Van Beneden, B-4020 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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Parmentier E, Fine ML, Mok HK. Sound production by a recoiling system in the pempheridae and terapontidae. J Morphol 2016; 277:717-24. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Revised: 02/06/2016] [Accepted: 02/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Eric Parmentier
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC; Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège; Liège B-4000 Belgium
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- Department of Biology; Virginia Commonwealth University; Richmond Virginia 23284-2012
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- Department of Oceanography and Asia-Pacific Ocean Research Center; National Sun Yat-sen University; Kaohsiung 80424 Taiwan
- National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium; Checheng Pingtung 944 Taiwan
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Parmentier E, Raick X, Lecchini D, Boyle K, Vanwassenbergh S, Bertucci F, Kéver L. Unusual sound production mechanism in the triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus (Balistidae). J Exp Biol 2016; 220:186-193. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.146514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The ability to produce sounds has been known for decades in Balistidae. Sounds of many species have been recorded and a variety of sound producing mechanisms have been proposed including teeth stridulation, collision of buccal teeth, and movements of the fins. The best supported hypothesis involves movements of the pectoral fins against the lateral parts of the swimbladder called a drumming membrane. In this study, we describe for the first time the sounds made by the Blackbar triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus that sound like short drum rolls with an average duration of 85 ms, 193 Hz dominant frequency and 136 dB SPL level at 3 cm distance. Sounds are a series of pulses that result from alternate sweeping movements of the right and left pectoral fins, which push a system of three scutes that are forced against the swimbladder wall. Pulses from each fin occur in consecutive pairs. High-speed videos indicate that each pulse consists in two cycles. The first part of each cycle corresponds to the inward buckling of the scutes whereas the second part of the cycle corresponds to an apparent passive recoil of the scutes and swimbladder wall. This novel sound production mechanism is likely found in many members of Balistidae because these peculiar scutes are found in other species in the family. Comparison of sound characteristics from fishes of different sizes shows that dominant frequency decreases with size in juveniles but not in adults.
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- Eric Parmentier
- Université de Liège, Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie - B6C, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Université de Liège, Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie - B6C, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, CRIOBE, Paris Sciences Lettres (PSL), Moorea, French Polynesia
- Laboratoire d'Excellence "CORAIL", Moorea, French Polynesia
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- Département d'Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, Paris 75231, Cedex 5, France
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- Département d'Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, Paris 75231, Cedex 5, France
- Department of Biology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Université de Liège, Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie - B6C, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Université de Liège, Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie - B6C, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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Fine ML, Waybright TD. Grunt variation in the oyster toadfish Opsanus tau: effect of size and sex. PeerJ 2015; 3:e1330. [PMID: 26623178 PMCID: PMC4662586 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 09/24/2015] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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As in insects, frogs and birds, vocal activity in fishes tends to be more developed in males than in females, and sonic swimbladder muscles may be sexually dimorphic, i.e., either larger in males or present only in males. Male oyster toadfish Opsanus tau L produce a long duration, tonal boatwhistle advertisement call, and both sexes grunt, a short duration more pulsatile agonistic call. Sonic muscles are present in both sexes but larger in males. We tested the hypothesis that males would call more than females by inducing grunts in toadfish of various sizes held in a net and determined incidence of calling and developmental changes in grunt parameters. A small number of fish were recorded twice to examine call repeatability. Both sexes were equally likely to grunt, and grunt parameters (sound pressure level (SPL), individual range in SPL, number of grunts, and fundamental frequency) were similar in both sexes. SPL increased with fish size before leveling off in fish >200 g, and fundamental frequency and other parameters did not change with fish size. Number of grunts in a train, grunt duration and inter-grunt interval were highly variable in fish recorded twice suggesting that grunt parameters reflect internal motivation rather than different messages. Grunt production may explain the presence of well-developed sonic muscles in females and suggests that females have an active but unexplored vocal life.
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- Michael L Fine
- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond, VA , United States
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond, VA , United States ; Office of Student Assessment, Virginia Department of Education , Richmond, VA , United States
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Kéver L, Boyle KS, Parmentier E. Effects of seawater temperature on sound characteristics in Ophidion rochei (Ophidiidae). JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2015; 87:502-509. [PMID: 26177590 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Accepted: 05/19/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Although the sound production mechanisms of male and female Ophidion rochei (Ophidiidae) differ significantly, temperature affects them in the same manner. In both sexes, temperature correlated negatively with pulse period and positively with sound frequencies but had no, or weak effects on other sound characteristics.
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- L Kéver
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000, Liège, Belgium
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- Département d'Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231, Paris Cedex 5, France
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de Chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000, Liège, Belgium
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Boyle KS, Bolen G, Parmentier E. Agonistic sounds and swim bladder morphology in a malapterurid electric catfish. J Zool (1987) 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- K. S. Boyle
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; AFFISH-RC; Institut de Chimie; Université de Liège; Liège Belgium
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- Département Clinique des Animaux de Compagnie et des Équidés; Imagerie Médicale; Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire; Université de Liège; Liège Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; AFFISH-RC; Institut de Chimie; Université de Liège; Liège Belgium
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Boyle KS, Riepe S, Bolen G, Parmentier E. Variation in swim bladder drumming sounds from three doradid catfish species with similar sonic morphologies. J Exp Biol 2015. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.123414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A variety of teleost fishes produce sounds for communication by vibrating the swim bladder with fast contracting muscles. Doradid catfishes have an elastic spring apparatus (ESA) for sound production. Contractions of the ESA protractor muscle pull the anterior transverse process of the 4th vertebra or Müllerian ramus (MR) to expand the swim bladder and elasticity of the MR returns the swim bladder to the resting state. In this study, we examined the sound characteristics and associated fine structure of the protractor drumming muscles of three doradid species: Acanthodoras cataphractus, Platydoras hancockii, and Agamyxis pectinifrons. Despite important variations in sizes, sounds from all three species had similar mean dominant rates ranging from 91-131 Hz and showed frequencies related to muscle contraction speed rather than fish size. Sounds differed among species in terms of waveform shape and their rate of amplitude modulation. In addition, multiple distinguishable sound types were observed from each species: three sound types from A. cataphractus and P. hancockii, and two sound types from A. pectinifrons. Though sounds differed among species, no differences in muscle fiber fine structure were observed at the species level. Drumming muscles from each species bear features associated with fast contractions, including sarcoplasmic cores, thin radial myofibrils, abundant mitochondria, and an elaborated sarcoplasmic reticulum. These results indicate that sound differences between doradids are not due to swimbladder size, muscle anatomy, muscle length, or Müllerian ramus shape, but instead result from differences in neural activation of sonic muscles.
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- Kelly S. Boyle
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Département clinique des animaux de compagnie et des équidés, Imagerie médicale, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Bât. B41, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH-RC, Institut de chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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Bertucci F, Ruppé L, Van Wassenbergh S, Compère P, Parmentier E. New insights into the role of the pharyngeal jaw apparatus in the sound-producing mechanism of Haemulon flavolineatum (Haemulidae). J Exp Biol 2014; 217:3862-9. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.109025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Grunts are fish that are well known to vocalize, but how they produce their grunting sounds has not been clearly identified. In addition to characterizing acoustic signals and hearing in the French grunt Haemulon flavolineatum, the present study investigates the sound-production mechanism of this species by means of high-speed X-ray videos and scanning electron microscopy of the pharyngeal jaw apparatus. Vocalizations consist of a series of stridulatory sounds: grunts lasting ~47 ms with a mean period of 155 ms and a dominant frequency of ~700 Hz. Auditory capacity was determined to range from 100 to 600 Hz, with greatest sensitivity at 300 Hz (105.0±11.8 dB re. 1 μPa). This suggests that hearing is not tuned exclusively to detect the sounds of conspecifics. High-speed X-ray videos revealed how pharyngeal jaws move during sound production. Traces of erosion on teeth in the fourth ceratobranchial arch suggest that they are also involved in sound production. The similarity of motor patterns of the upper and lower pharyngeal jaws between food processing and sound production indicates that calling is an exaptation of the food-processing mechanism.
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- Frédéric Bertucci
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, AFFISH-RC, University of Liège, 4000 Liège 1, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Functional Morphology, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
- Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, University of Ghent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, AFFISH-RC, University of Liège, 4000 Liège 1, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, AFFISH-RC, University of Liège, 4000 Liège 1, Belgium
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Millot S, Parmentier E. Development of the ultrastructure of sonic muscles: a kind of neoteny? BMC Evol Biol 2014; 14:24. [PMID: 24507247 PMCID: PMC3924398 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2013] [Accepted: 02/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Drumming muscles of some sound-producing fish are ‘champions’ of contraction speed, their rate setting the fundamental frequency. In the piranha, contraction of these muscles at 150 Hz drives a sound at the same frequency. Drumming muscles of different not closely related species show evolutionary convergences. Interestingly, some characters of sonic muscles can also be found in the trunk muscles of newly hatched larvae that are able to maintain tail beat frequencies up to 100 Hz. The aim of this work was to study the development of sound production and sonic and epaxial muscles simultaneously in the red bellied piranhas (Pygocentrus nattereri) to seek for possible common characteristics. Results Call, pulse and period durations increased significantly with the fish size, but the call dominant frequencies decreased, and the number of pulses and the call amplitude formed a bell curve. In epaxial muscles, the fibre diameters of younger fish are first positioned in the graphical slope corresponding to sonic muscles, before diverging. The fibre diameter of older fish trunk muscles was bigger, and the area of the myofibrils was larger than in sonic muscles. Moreover, in two of the biggest fish, the sonic muscles were invaded by fat cells and the sonic muscle ultrastructure was similar to the epaxial one. These two fish were also unable to produce any sound, meaning they lost their ability to contract quickly. Conclusions The volume occupied by myofibrils determines the force of contraction, the volume of sarcoplasmic reticulum sets the contraction frequency, and the volume of mitochondria sets the level of sustained performance. The functional outcomes in muscles are all attributable to shifts in the proportions of those structures. A single delay in the development restricts the quantity of myofibrils, maintains a high proportion of space in the sarcoplasm and develops sarcoplasmic reticulum. High-speed sonic muscles could thus be skeletal muscles with delayed development. This hypothesis has the advantage that it could easily explain why high-speed sonic muscles have evolved so many times in different lineages.
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de Chimie, B6C, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
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Kéver L, Boyle KS, Dragičević B, Dulčić J, Parmentier E. A superfast muscle in the complex sonic apparatus of Ophidion rochei (Ophidiiformes): histological and physiological approaches. J Exp Biol 2014; 217:3432-40. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.105445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In teleosts, superfast muscles are generally associated with the swimbladder wall whose vibrations result in sound production. In Ophidion rochei, three pairs of muscles were named 'sonic' because their contractions affect swimbladder position: the dorsal sonic muscle (DSM), the intermediate sonic muscle (ISM), and the ventral sonic muscle (VSM). These muscles were investigated thanks to electron microscopy and electromyography in order to determine their function in sound production. Fibers of the VSM and DSM were much thinner than the fibers of the ISM and epaxial musculature. However, only VSM fibers had the typical ultrastructure of superfast muscles: low proportion of myofibrils, and high proportions of sarcoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria. In females, each sound onset was preceded by the onset of electrical activity in the VSM and the DSM (ISM was not tested). The electromyograms of the VSM were very similar to the waveforms of the sounds: means for the pulse period were 3.6±0.5 ms and 3.6±0.7 ms, respectively. This shows that the fast VSM (ca. 280 Hz) is responsible for the pulse period and fundamental frequency of female sounds. DSM electromyograms were generally characterized by one or two main peaks followed by periods of lower electrical activity which suggests a sustained contraction over the course of the sound. The fiber morphology of the ISM and its antagonistic position relative to the DSM are not indicative of a muscle capable of superfast contractions. Overall, this study experimentally shows the complexity of the sound production mechanism in the nocturnal fish O. rochei.
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- Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Croatia
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Parmentier E, Kéver L, Boyle K, Corbisier YE, Sawelew L, Malavasi S. Sound production mechanism in Gobius paganellus (Gobiidae). J Exp Biol 2013; 216:3189-99. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.087205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Gobiidae, the largest fish family (>1500 species), has species from at least 10 genera that produce sounds for communication. Studies focused on goby sound production mechanisms have suggested that sounds are produced by the forcible ejection of water through small apertures in the opercles (hydrodynamic mechanism). The present study was a multidisciplinary investigation (morphology, muscle histology, high-speed video, sound analysis and electromyography) of the sound emission mechanism in Gobius paganellus, which produces both pulsed and tonal calls. Two populations were used, from Brittany and Venice. In the French population, sounds were accompanied by a suite of coordinated movements of the buccal, branchial and opercular regions. This was not the case in the Venetian population, and thus the direct role of head movements in sound production was rejected. The hydrodynamic mechanism hypothesis was also rejected in G. paganellus on the basis of sound oscillogram shape and because sounds are still produced after the opercles and hyohyoid muscles are cut. The use of both electromyography and electron microscopy showed that the levator pectoralis muscle, which originates on the skull and inserts on the dorsal tip of the cleithrum, is involved in sound production. We propose that the contraction of this muscle and associated vibration of the large radials is used to make sounds. In addition, we propose that different sound types (pulsed sounds and tonal calls) could occur because of differences in fish size.
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- Eric Parmentier
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH, Institut de chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH, Institut de chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH, Institut de chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH, Institut de chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, AFFISH, Institut de chimie, Bât. B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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- CEMAS – Center for Estuarine and coastal Marine Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, University Ca' Foscari Venice, Castello 2737/B, 30122 Venice, Italy
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Longrie N, Poncin P, Denoël M, Gennotte V, Delcourt J, Parmentier E. Behaviours associated with acoustic communication in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). PLoS One 2013; 8:e61467. [PMID: 23620756 PMCID: PMC3631236 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2012] [Accepted: 03/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Sound production is widespread among fishes and accompanies many social interactions. The literature reports twenty-nine cichlid species known to produce sounds during aggressive and courtship displays, but the precise range in behavioural contexts is unclear. This study aims to describe the various Oreochromis niloticus behaviours that are associated with sound production in order to delimit the role of sound during different activities, including agonistic behaviours, pit activities, and reproduction and parental care by males and females of the species. Methodology/Principal Findings Sounds mostly occur during the day. The sounds recorded during this study accompany previously known behaviours, and no particular behaviour is systematically associated with sound production. Males and females make sounds during territorial defence but not during courtship and mating. Sounds support visual behaviours but are not used alone. During agonistic interactions, a calling Oreochromis niloticus does not bite after producing sounds, and more sounds are produced in defence of territory than for dominating individuals. Females produce sounds to defend eggs but not larvae. Conclusion/Significance Sounds are produced to reinforce visual behaviours. Moreover, comparisons with O. mossambicus indicate two sister species can differ in their use of sound, their acoustic characteristics, and the function of sound production. These findings support the role of sounds in differentiating species and promoting speciation. They also make clear that the association of sounds with specific life-cycle roles cannot be generalized to the entire taxa.
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- Nicolas Longrie
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Fish and Amphibian Ethology, Behavioural Biology Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Fish and Amphibian Ethology, Behavioural Biology Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Aquaculture Research and Education Center (CEFRA), University of Liège, Tihange, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Fish and Amphibian Ethology, Behavioural Biology Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Kéver L, Boyle KS, Dragičević B, Dulčić J, Casadevall M, Parmentier E. Sexual dimorphism of sonic apparatus and extreme intersexual variation of sounds in Ophidion rochei (Ophidiidae): first evidence of a tight relationship between morphology and sound characteristics in Ophidiidae. Front Zool 2012; 9:34. [PMID: 23217241 PMCID: PMC3538643 DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-9-34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2012] [Accepted: 11/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Many Ophidiidae are active in dark environments and display complex sonic apparatus morphologies. However, sound recordings are scarce and little is known about acoustic communication in this family. This paper focuses on Ophidion rochei which is known to display an important sexual dimorphism in swimbladder and anterior skeleton. The aims of this study were to compare the sound producing morphology, and the resulting sounds in juveniles, females and males of O. rochei. Results Males, females, and juveniles possessed different morphotypes. Females and juveniles contrasted with males because they possessed dramatic differences in morphology of their sonic muscles, swimbladder, supraoccipital crest, and first vertebrae and associated ribs. Further, they lacked the ‘rocker bone’ typically found in males. Sounds from each morphotype were highly divergent. Males generally produced non harmonic, multiple-pulsed sounds that lasted for several seconds (3.5 ± 1.3 s) with a pulse period of ca. 100 ms. Juvenile and female sounds were recorded for the first time in ophidiids. Female sounds were harmonic, had shorter pulse period (±3.7 ms), and never exceeded a few dozen milliseconds (18 ± 11 ms). Moreover, unlike male sounds, female sounds did not have alternating long and short pulse periods. Juvenile sounds were weaker but appear to be similar to female sounds. Conclusions Although it is not possible to distinguish externally male from female in O. rochei, they show a sonic apparatus and sounds that are dramatically different. This difference is likely due to their nocturnal habits that may have favored the evolution of internal secondary sexual characters that help to distinguish males from females and that could facilitate mate choice by females. Moreover, the comparison of different morphotypes in this study shows that these morphological differences result from a peramorphosis that takes place during the development of the gonads.
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- Loïc Kéver
- Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de chimie, Bât, B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000, Liège, Belgium.
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Colleye O, Nakamura M, Frédérich B, Parmentier E. Further insight into the sound-producing mechanism of clownfishes: what structure is involved in sound radiation? J Exp Biol 2012; 215:2192-202. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.067124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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It was recently demonstrated that clownfishes produce aggressive sounds by snapping their jaw teeth. To date, only the onset of the sound has been studied, which raises the question, what structure is involved in sound radiation? Here, a combination of different approaches has been used to determine the anatomical structure(s) responsible for the size-related variations observed in sound duration and frequency. Filling the swimbladder with physiological liquid specifically modified size-related acoustic features by inducing a significant decrease in pulse duration of approximately 3 ms and a significant increase in dominant frequency of approximately 105 Hz. However, testing the acoustics of the swimbladder by striking it with a piezoelectric impact hammer showed that this structure is a highly damped sound source prevented from prolonged vibrations. In contrast, the resonant properties of the rib cage seems to account for the size-related variations observed in acoustic features. For an equivalent strike on the rib cage, the duration and dominant frequency of induced sounds changed with fish size: sound duration and dominant frequency were positively and negatively correlated with fish size, respectively. Such relationships between sonic features and fish size are consistent with those observed in natural sounds emitted by fish. Therefore, the swimbladder itself does not act as a resonator; its wall just seems to be driven by the oscillations of the rib cage. This set of observations suggests the need for reassessment of the acoustic role of swimbladders in various fish species.
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- Orphal Colleye
- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Sesoko Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Knight K. PIRANHAS COMMUNICATE ACOUSTICALLY. J Exp Biol 2011. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.066274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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