Sound production mechanism in<i>Gobius paganellus</i>(Gobiidae)

Parmentier, Éric; Kéver, Loïc; Boyle, Kelly; Corbisier, Yves-Eric; Sawelew, Ludovic; Malavasi, Stefano

doi:10.1242/jeb.087205

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“…As in the sculpin, the fast levator pectoralis muscle, which originates on the skull and inserts on the dorsal tip of the cleithrum, fires one action potential per sound cycle. The left and right muscles contract in relative synchrony, and the enlarged pectoral radials are the likely sound radiators (Parmentier et al 2013). Thus this mechanism works similarly to muscles that drive the swimbladder directly although with a different radiator since the sculpin and this goby do not have a swimbladder.…”

Section: Sculpins and Gobiesmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Thus this mechanism works similarly to muscles that drive the swimbladder directly although with a different radiator since the sculpin and this goby do not have a swimbladder. Parmentier et al (2013) note that both sculpins and gobies are demersal species that, although not closely related, share similar pectoral morphologies. The sonic mechanism in these species likely represents another case of convergent evolution.…”

Section: Sculpins and Gobiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Sonic muscle fibers, generally but not always, have a central core of sarcoplasm (Fine et al 1993;Ladich 2001) surrounded by a radially arranged contractile cylinder consisting of alternating ribbons of SR and myofibrils (Fawcett and Revel 1961;Eichelberg 1976;Ono and Poss 1982;Fine and Pennypacker 1988;Bass and Marchaterre 1989;Appelt et al 1991;Brantley et al 1993;Fine et al 1993;Connaughton et al 1997;Loesser et al 1997;Ladich 2001). The fiber periphery contains a large sarcoplasmic band beneath the sarcolemma (Hamoir et al 1980;Hamoir and Focant 1981;Feher et al 1998;Parmentier et al 2013).…”

Section: Morphologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mechanisms of Fish Sound Production

Fine

Parmentier

2015

Animal Signals and Communication

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Fishes have evolved multiple mechanisms for sound production, many of which utilize sonic muscles that vibrate the swimbladder or the rubbing of bony elements. Sonic muscles are among the fastest muscles in vertebrates and typically drive the swimbladder to produce one sound cycle per contraction. These muscles may be extrinsic, typically extending from the head to the swimbladder, or intrinsic, likely a more-derived condition, in which muscles attach exclusively to the bladder wall. Recently discovered in Ophidiiform fishes, slow muscles stretch the swimbladder and associated tendons, allowing sound production by rebound (cock and release). In glaucosomatids, fast muscles produce a weak sound followed by a louder one, again produced by rebound, which may reflect an intermediate in the evolution of slow to superfast sonic muscles. Historically, the swimbladder has been modeled as an underwater resonant bubble. We provide evidence for an alternative hypothesis, namely that bladder sounds are driven as a forced rather than a resonant response, thus accounting for broad tuning, rapid damping, and directionality of fish sounds. Cases of sounds that damp slowly, an indication of resonance, are associated with tendons or bones that continue to vibrate and hence drive multiple cycles of swimbladder sound. Stridulation sounds, best studied in catfishes and damselfishes, are produced, respectively, as a series of quick jerks causing rubbing of a ribbed process against a rough surface or rapid jaw closing mediated by a specialized tendon. A cladogram of sonic fishes suggests that fish sound production has arisen independently multiple times.

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Section: Sculpins and Gobiesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Sculpins and Gobiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Morphologymentioning

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Mechanisms of Fish Sound Production

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“…Then the fish was ventilated with oxygenated seawater and placed in a small net in the middle of the holding tank. Bipolar electrodes were prepared as described by Parmentier et al (Parmentier et al, 2013). The signal obtained from these electrodes was amplified 10,000 times, bandpassed (100−10,000 Hz), and notched filtered (50 Hz) with a differential amplifier (AM Systems model 1700, Sequim, MA, USA).…”

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A superfast muscle in the complex sonic apparatus of Ophidion rochei (Ophidiiformes): histological and physiological approaches

Kéver

Boyle

Dragičević

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Biology

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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 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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“…Examples include a mormyrid (Crawford et al, 1997), batrachoidid fishes (Dos Santos et al, 2000;Rice and Bass, 2009), and gobiids (Lugli et al, 1996;Parmentier et al, 2013). In this study, the number of amplitude modulations per sound was variable and not consistently different among sound types.…”

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confidence: 68%

Variation in swim bladder drumming sounds from three doradid catfish species with similar sonic morphologies

Boyle

Riepe

Bolen

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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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 large variations in size, sounds from all three species had similar mean dominant rates ranging from 91 to 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. Although 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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Sound production mechanism inGobius paganellus(Gobiidae)

Cited by 41 publications

References 63 publications

Mechanisms of Fish Sound Production

Mechanisms of Fish Sound Production

A superfast muscle in the complex sonic apparatus of Ophidion rochei (Ophidiiformes): histological and physiological approaches

Variation in swim bladder drumming sounds from three doradid catfish species with similar sonic morphologies

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