The properties of skeletal muscle in the teleost Sternopygus macrurus are 2 unaffected by short-term electrical inactivity 3 4 5 6

1 The properties of skeletal muscle in the teleost Sternopygus macrurus are 2 unaffected by short-term electrical inactivity 3 4 5 6 Robert Güth, Alex Chaidez, Manoj P. Samanta, and Graciela A. Unguez 7 Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA 8 Systemix Institute, Redmond, WA 98053, USA 9 10 11 Correspondence to: Graciela A. Unguez 12 Department of Biology 13 Foster Hall – 3AF 14 New Mexico State University 15 Las Cruces, NM 88003 16 Office: (575) 646-7963 17 Fax: (575) 646-5665 18 Email: gunguez@nmsu.edu 19 20 Author contributions: 21 R.G. and G.A.U. conceived and designed the experiments, R.G. and A.C. performed the 22 experiments, M.P.S. processed RNA-seq datasets, R.G. analyzed the data, R.G. and G.A.U. 23 drafted the manuscript, R.G., M.P.S., and G.A.U. edited and revised the manuscript. 24 25 Running head: Electrical inactivation effects on teleost skeletal muscle 26 Number of Pages: 31 27 Number of Figures: 7 28 Number of Tables: 3 29 Number of words (abstract): 217 30 Number of words (introduction): 533 31 Number of words (discussion): 1087 32 Conflict of Interests: The authors declare no competing financial interests. 33 34