Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking.
Electric fish generate and sense electric fields for navigation and communication. These signals can be energetically costly to produce and can attract electroreceptive predators. To minimize costs, some nocturnally active electric fish rapidly boost the power of their signals only at times of high...
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| author | Michael R Markham M Lynne McAnelly Philip K Stoddard Harold H Zakon |
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| description | Electric fish generate and sense electric fields for navigation and communication. These signals can be energetically costly to produce and can attract electroreceptive predators. To minimize costs, some nocturnally active electric fish rapidly boost the power of their signals only at times of high social activity, either as night approaches or in response to social encounters. Here we show that the gymnotiform electric fish Sternopygus macrurus rapidly boosts signal amplitude by 40% at night and during social encounters. S. macrurus increases signal magnitude through the rapid and selective trafficking of voltage-gated sodium channels into the excitable membranes of its electrogenic cells, a process under the control of pituitary peptide hormones and intracellular second-messenger pathways. S. macrurus thus maintains a circadian rhythm in signal amplitude and adapts within minutes to environmental events by increasing signal amplitude through the rapid trafficking of ion channels, a process that directly modifies an ongoing behavior in real time. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f50e57f28e8e4f1691ae60dbe0d83cf92025-08-20T03:20:09ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Biology1544-91731545-78852009-09-0179e100020310.1371/journal.pbio.1000203Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking.Michael R MarkhamM Lynne McAnellyPhilip K StoddardHarold H ZakonElectric fish generate and sense electric fields for navigation and communication. These signals can be energetically costly to produce and can attract electroreceptive predators. To minimize costs, some nocturnally active electric fish rapidly boost the power of their signals only at times of high social activity, either as night approaches or in response to social encounters. Here we show that the gymnotiform electric fish Sternopygus macrurus rapidly boosts signal amplitude by 40% at night and during social encounters. S. macrurus increases signal magnitude through the rapid and selective trafficking of voltage-gated sodium channels into the excitable membranes of its electrogenic cells, a process under the control of pituitary peptide hormones and intracellular second-messenger pathways. S. macrurus thus maintains a circadian rhythm in signal amplitude and adapts within minutes to environmental events by increasing signal amplitude through the rapid trafficking of ion channels, a process that directly modifies an ongoing behavior in real time.https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000203&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Michael R Markham M Lynne McAnelly Philip K Stoddard Harold H Zakon Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking. PLoS Biology |
| title | Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking. |
| title_full | Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking. |
| title_fullStr | Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking. |
| title_short | Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking. |
| title_sort | circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000203&type=printable |
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