Spatial and temporal patterns of water flow generated by suction-feeding bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus resolved by Particle Image Velocimetry

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2661-2671

  Day, Steven W ^a   Higham, Timothy E ^a   Cheer, Angela Y ^a   Wainwright, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrarchidae; DPIV; Lepomis macrochirus; Suction feeding; Sunfish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOW KINETICS; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SUCKING; SWIMMING; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; RHEOLOGY; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

CENTRARCHIDAE; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 23744432757     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01708     Document Type: Article

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