The "Shocking" Truth Behind Distinct Electric Eel Voltages (IMAGE)

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The "Shocking" Truth Behind Distinct Electric Eel Voltages

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The strong-voltage electric eel, Electrophorus electricus. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 5, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.L. Traeger at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wis. and colleagues was titled, "A tail of two voltages: Proteomic comparison of the three electric organs of the electric eel."

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