A test of mouth-opening and hyoid-depression mechanisms during prey capture in a catfish using high-speed cineradiography

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 4627-4639

  Van Wassenbergh, Sam ^a   Herrel, Anthony ^a   Adriaens, Dominique ^b   Aerts, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Catfish; Clarias gariepinus; Feeding; Four bar linkage; Kinematics; X ray video

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CATFISH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYOID BONE; MOUTH; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATFISHES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYOID BONE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH; MOVEMENT; VIDEO RECORDING;

CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; PISCES;

EID: 31044449710     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01919     Document Type: Article

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