Central connections of the trigeminal motor command system in the weakly electric Elephantnose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) Running title: Trigeminal pre-motor pathways Monique Amey-Özel 1 , Stefanie Anders 2 , Kirsty Grant 2 , and Gerhard von der Emde 1 1 Department of Neuroethology/Sensory Ecology, Institute for Zoology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany 2 CNRS-UNIC, 1, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91190 Gif sur Yvette, France Corresponding author: Monique Amey-Özel E-Mail: monique.amey@uni-bonn.de Telephone: +49 228 735555 Fax: +49 228 735556 Associate Editor: Thomas E. Finger, University of Colorado School of Medicine: Sensory Systems, Neurobiology of Non-mammalian Vertebrates Research Article The Journal of Comparative Neurology Research in Systems Neuroscience DOI 10.1002/cne.24701 This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/cne.24701 © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Received: Nov 11, 2018; Revised: Apr 03, 2019; Accepted: Apr 05, 2019 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.