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Harold H. Zakon is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology. Other areas of study include Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects

Harold H. Zakon has contributed to various scientific publications, with a distribution of work appearing in:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature (7 publications)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Science Advances
  • Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Some notable recent papers include:

  • "Brain transcriptomics of agonistic behaviour in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus omarorum, a wild teleost model of non-breeding aggression" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Evolution of Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Ion Channels in Antarctic Fishes (Cryonotothenioidea) and Identification of Putative Thermosensors" (2022) published in Genome Biology and Evolution
  • "Divergent cis-regulatory evolution underlies the convergent loss of sodium channel expression in electric fish" (2022) published in Science Advances
  • "Vocal and Electric Fish: Revisiting a Comparison of Two Teleost Models in the Neuroethology of Social Behavior" (2021) published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • "A potential cost of evolving epibatidine resistance in poison frogs" (2023) published in BMC Biology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of their frequent co-authors are:

  • Julia M. York
  • Cecilia M. Borghese
  • Andrew A. George
  • David C. Cannatella
  • Guillermo Eastman

Best Publications

  • Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: the first 800 million years.

    Harold H. Zakon

  • Sodium channel genes and the evolution of diversity in communication signals of electric fishes: Convergent molecular evolution

    Harold H. Zakon;Ying Lu;Derrick J. Zwickl;David M. Hillis

  • Toxin-Resistant Sodium Channels: Parallel Adaptive Evolution across a Complete Gene Family

    Manda Clair Jost;David M. Hillis;Ying Lu;John W. Kyle

  • EOD modulations of brown ghost electric fish: JARs, chirps, rises, and dips.

    Harold H Zakon;Joerg Oestreich;Sara Tallarovic;Frank Triefenbach

  • The effects of steroid hormones on electrical activity of excitable cells

    Harold H. Zakon

  • Acoustic communication in spring peepers - Call characteristics and neurophysiological aspects

    Walter Wilczynski;Harold H. Zakon;Eliot A. Brenowitz

  • Emerging from the bottleneck: benefits of the comparative approach to modern neuroscience

    Eliot A. Brenowitz;Harold H. Zakon

  • Diversity of sexual dimorphism in electrocommunication signals and its androgen regulation in a genus of electric fish, Apteronotus

    K. D. Dunlap;Peter Thomas;Harold H Zakon

  • Mormyromast electroreceptor organs and their afferent fibers in mormyrid fish: I. Morphology.

    C. C. Bell;Harold H Zakon;T. E. Finger

  • Changes in signalling during agonistic interactions between male weakly electric knifefish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus

    Frank A. Triefenbach;Harold H. Zakon

  • Acoustic communication in spring peepers: environmental and behavioral aspects

    Eliot A. Brenowitz;Walter Wilczynski;Harold H. Zakon

  • Interacting amino acid replacements allow poison frogs to evolve epibatidine resistance.

    Rebecca D. Tarvin;Cecilia M. Borghese;Wiebke Sachs;Wiebke Sachs;Juan C. Santos

  • Individual variation in and androgen-modulation of the sodium current in electric organ

    M. B. Ferrari;M. L. McAnelly;Harold H Zakon

  • Gene duplications and evolution of vertebrate voltage-gated sodium channels.

    Alicia E. Novak;Manda C. Jost;Ying Lu;Alison D. Taylor

  • Androgens alter the tuning of electroreceptors.

    J. Harlan Meyer;Harold H. Zakon

  • Opposing actions of androgen and estrogen on in vitro firing frequency of neuronal oscillators in the electromotor system

    Joseph E. Schaefer;Harold H. Zakon

  • Convergent evolution on the molecular level.

    Harold H. Zakon

  • Coregulation of Voltage-Dependent Kinetics of Na+ and K+ Currents in Electric Organ

    M. Lynne McAnelly;Harold H. Zakon

  • The Electroreceptors: Diversity in Structure and Function

    Harold H. Zakon

  • Postembryonic changes in the peripheral electrosensory system of a weakly electric fish: addition of receptor organs with age.

    Harold H. Zakon

  • Chronic androgen treatment increases action potential duration in the electric organ of Sternopygus

    A Mills;HH Zakon

  • Neural Nets in Electric Fish

    H. Zakon

Frequent Co-Authors

Curtis C. Bell
Curtis C. Bell Oregon Health & Science University
Eliot A. Brenowitz
Eliot A. Brenowitz University of Washington
Jon H. Kaas
Jon H. Kaas Vanderbilt University
Theodore R. Cummins
Theodore R. Cummins Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Bernd Fritzsch
Bernd Fritzsch University of Nebraska Medical Center
Gregory A. Wray
Gregory A. Wray Duke University
Gregory T. Smith
Gregory T. Smith University of Kentucky
Byrappa Venkatesh
Byrappa Venkatesh Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Walter Wilczynski
Walter Wilczynski Georgia State University
Andrew N. Iwaniuk
Andrew N. Iwaniuk University of Lethbridge

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