Morphology predicts suction feeding performance in centrarchid fishes

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 3873-3881

  Carroll, Andrew M ^a   Wainwright, Peter C ^a   Huskey, Stephen H ^b   Collar, David C ^a   Turingan, Ralph G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Buccal pressure; Centrarchidae; Functional morphology; Modeling; Performance; Suction feeding; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; PRESSURE; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

CENTRARCHIDAE; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; LEPOMIS MICROLOPHUS; LEPOMIS PUNCTATUS; MICROLOPHUS; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PISCES; POMOXIS; POMOXIS NIGROMACULATUS;

EID: 10344221093     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01227     Document Type: Article

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