Morphology of seahorse head hydrodynamically aids in capture of evasive prey

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gemmell, Brad J ^a   Sheng, Jian ^b,c   Buskey, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; HOLOGRAPHY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PREY AVAILABILITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COPEPOD; FEEDING; FISH; HEAD; HOLOGRAPHY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PREY;

ACARTIA TONSA; ANIMALIA; COPEPODA; HIPPOCAMPINAE; SYNGNATHIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COPEPODA; HEAD; HYDRODYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84889649635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3840     Document Type: Article

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