Eels Can Genetically Modify Nearby Fish With Their Electrical Pulses In laboratory experiments, gene transfer occurred in 5 percent of zebrafish larvae that were near eels when they discharged ...

In something straight out of a comic book, electric eels may be able to shoot DNA into other animals when they zap them with electricity. The electric eel can release up to 860 volts of ...

Researchers have discovered that electric eels can alter the genes of tiny fish larvae with their electric shock. Their findings help to better understand electroporation, a method by which genes ...

Some 2,200 years ago Aristotle dignified the lowly eel by puzzling about the mystery of its life. Following him came scores of scientists who jousted with the problem with no success. All knew the ...

Researchers from Nagoya University and Kyoto University in Japan learned this by placing zebrafish larvae in the same tank as electric eels, then dousing the tank in DNA that codes for a green ...

When they are larvae, the eels are shaped like willow leaves and they migrate north towards the freshwaters of the Caribbean islands, South America, the Gulf of Mexico, ...

Japanese eels lay eggs in the west of the Mariana Islands, far south of Japan. After hatching, the larvae drift on the North Equatorial Current and the Kuroshio Current and are then carried to ...