Snout allometry in seahorses: Insights on optimisation of pivot feeding performance during ontogeny

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2184-2193

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ontogeny; Pivot feeding; Scaling; Syngnathidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SMEGMAMORPHA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA;

HIPPOCAMPINAE; SYNGNATHIDAE;

EID: 77953574885     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.040972     Document Type: Article

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