Sucking while swimming: Evaluating the effects of ram speed on suction generation in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus using digital particle image velocimetry

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2653-2660

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrarchidae; DPIV; Lepomis macrochirus; Locomotion; Ram feeding; Suction feeding; Sunfish; Swimming

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOW KINETICS; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUCKING; SWIMMING; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PERCIFORMES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING;

CENTRARCHIDAE; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 23744441947     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01682     Document Type: Article

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