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In 2-year-old Chinese giant salamanders Andrias davidianus, occasional electric discharges with a characteristic pattern similar to the electric discharges of weakly electric catfish, Polypterus and Protopterus, were recorded for the first time. The discharges markedly differ in shape from the myograms accompanying abrupt movements of the salamander or exceeded them in amplitude by more than an order of magnitude. The discharges were recorded both in the autonomous experiment in the absence of experimenters and at a weak tactile stimulation.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Olshanskii, V.D. Baron, Xue Wei, 2016, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2016, Vol. 471, No. 6, pp. 736–738.
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Olshanskii, V.M., Baron, V.D. & Wei, X. Electrical discharges in Chinese salamander Andrias davidianus . Dokl Biochem Biophys 471, 447–449 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1607672916060193
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