Harold Zakon, professor of neuroscience and integrative biology, and his colleagues published new research demonstrating that the six electric fish lineages, all of which evolved independently, used essentially the same genes and developmental and cellular pathways to make an electricity-generating organ for defense, predation, navigation and communication.
On June 27, Reuters wrote about the discovery here: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/06/27/4034476.htm
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