Peripheral encoding of moving sources by the lateral line system of a sit-and-wait predator

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-102

  Montgomery, J C ^a   Coombs, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Genyagnus monopterygius; Lateral line; Leptoscopus macropygus; Peripheral encoding; Stargazer; Teleost

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031884445     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. BLECKMANN, H., BREITHAUPT, T., BLICKHAN, R. AND TAUTZ, J. (1991). The time course and frequency content of hydrodynamic events caused by moving fish, frogs and crustaceans. J. comp. Physiol. A 168, 749-757.
2. BLECKMANN, H., MOGDANS, J. AND FLECK, A. (1995). Integration of hydrodynamic information in the hindbrain of fishes. Mar. fresh. Behav. Physiol. 27, 77-94.
3. BLECKMANN, H. AND ZELICK, R. (1993). The responses of peripheral and central mechanosensory lateral line units of weakly electric fish to moving objects. J. comp. Physiol. A 172, 115-128.
4. BLICKHAN, R., KRICK, C., ZEHREN, D. AND NACHTIGALL, W. (1992). Generation of a vortex chain in the wake of a subundulatory swimmer. Naturwissenschaften 79, 220-221.
5. COOMBS, S. AND CONLEY, R. A. (1997). Dipole source localization by the mottled sculpin. II. The role of lateral line excitation patterns. J. comp. Physiol. 180, 401-415.
6. COOMBS, S., FAY, R. R. AND JANSSEN, J. (1989). Hot-film anemometry for measuring lateral line stimuli. J. acoust. Soc. Am. 85, 2185-2193.
7. COOMBS, S., HASTINGS, M. AND FINNERAN, J. (1996). Modeling and measuring lateral line excitation patterns to changing dipole source locations. J. comp. Physiol. A 178, 359-371.
8. COOMBS, S. AND JANSSEN, J. (1990). Behavioral and neurophysiological assessment of lateral line sensitivity in the mottled sculpin, Cottus bairdi. J. comp. Physiol. A 167, 557-567.
9. ENGER, P. S., KALMIJN, A. J. AND SAND, O. (1989). Behavioral investigations of the functions of the lateral line and inner ear in predation. In The Mechanosensory Lateral Line: Neurobiology and Evolution (ed. S. Coombs, P. Corner and H. Muntz), pp. 575-587. New York: Springer-Verlag.
10. HOEKSTRA, D. AND JANSSEN, J. (1985). Non visual feeding behavior of the mottled sculpin. Env. Biol. Fish. 12, 111-117.
11. JANSSEN, J. (1996). Use of the lateral line and tactile senses in feeding in four antarctic nototheniid fishes. Env. Biol. Fish. 47, 51-64.
12. JANSSEN, J., COOMBS, S. AND PRIDE, S. (1990). Feeding and orientation of mottled sculpin, Cottus bairdi, to water jets. Env. Biol. Fish. 29, 43-50.
13. JANSSEN, J. AND CORCORAN, J. (1993). Lateral line stimuli can override vision to determine sunfish strike trajectory. J. exp. Biol. 176, 299-305.
14. KROESE, A. B. A. AND SCHELLART, N. A. M. (1992). Velocity-and acceleration-sensitive units in the trunk lateral line of the trout. J. Neurophyiol. 68, 2212-2221.
15. MOGDANS, J., BLECKMANN, H. AND MENGER, N. (1997). Sensitivity of central units in the goldfish, Carassius auratus, to transient hydrodynamic stimuli. Brain Behav. Evol. (in press).
16. MONTGOMERY, J. C. (1989). Lateral line detection of planktonic prey. In The Mechanosensory Lateral Line: Neurobiology and Evolution (ed. S. Coombs, P. Gorner and H. Muntz), pp. 561-574. New York: Springer-Verlag.
17. MONTGOMERY, J. C. AND COOMBS, S. (1992). Physiological characterization of lateral line function in the Antarctic fish, Trematomus bernacchii. Brain Behav. Evol. 40, 209-216.
18. MONTGOMERY, J. C., COOMBS, S. AND HALSTEAD, M. B. D. (1995). Biology of the mechanosensory lateral line in fishes. Rev. Fish Biol. Fish. 5, 399-416.
19. MONTGOMERY, J. C. AND MILTON, R. C. (1993). Use of the lateral line for feeding in the torrentfish (Cheimarrichthys fosteri). N.Z. J. Zool. 20, 121-125.
20. MÜLLER, H. M., FLECK, A., AND BLECKMANN, H. (1996). The responses of central octavolateralis cells to moving sources. J. comp. Physiol. 179, 455-473.
21. PARTRIDGE, B. L. AND PITCHER, T. J. (1980). The sensory basis of fish schools; relative roles of lateral line and vision. J. comp. Physiol. 135, 315-325.
22. SATOU, M., TAKEUCHI, H. A., NISHII, J., TANABE, M., KITAMURA, S., OKUMOTO, N. AND IWATA, M. (1994a). Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence that the lateral line is involved in the inter-sexual vibrational communication of the hime salmon (landlocked red salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka). J. comp. Physiol. A 174, 539-549.
23. SATOU, M., TAKEUCHI, H. A., TAKEI, K., HASEGAWA, T., MATSUSHIMA, T. AND OKUMOTO, N. (1994b). Characterization of vibrational and visual signals which elicit spawning behavior in the male hime salmon (landlocked red salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka). J. comp. Physiol. A 174, 527-537.
24. SATOU, M., TAKEUCHI, H., TAKEI, K., HASEGAWA, T., OKUMOTO, N. AND UEDA, K. (1987). Involvement of vibrational and visual cues in eliciting spawning behaviour in male Hine salmon (landlocked red salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka). Anim. Behav. 35, 1556-1584.