Extremely fast prey capture in pipefish is powered by elastic recoil

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 285-296

  Van Wassenbergh, Sam ^a   Strother, James A ^b   Flammang, Brooke E ^c,d   Ferry Graham, Lara A ^d   Aerts, Peter ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Electromyography; Energy storage; Feeding; Power amplification; Syngnathidae

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDING; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; PREY CAPTURE;

FISH;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ELASTIC RECOIL MECHANISM; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENERGY CONVERSION; FACE; FAST PREY CAPTURE; FEEDING; FISH; HYPOTHESIS; INVERSE DYNAMIC MODEL; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANICAL POWER; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PIPEFISH; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SUCTION; SYNGNATHUS LEPTORHYNCHUS;

PISCES; SYNGNATHIDAE; SYNGNATHUS LEPTORHYNCHUS;

EID: 38349175352     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1124     Document Type: Article

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