Drucker, Eliot G. - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

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Drucker, Eliot G. - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

The paired fins of bony fishes have long been considered critical components of the locomotor system (Schmalhausen,
Change in fin morphology and position is a central component of the evolutionary transformation of functional
Teleost fishes of the order Salmoniformes have historically received much attention from experimentalists interested in
INTEGR. COMP. BIOL., 42:9971008 (2002) Wake Dynamics and Locomotor Function in Fishes: Interpreting Evolutionary Patterns in
Experimental studies of animal movement have traditionally focused upon steady locomotor behaviors (i.e. involving
What is the physical basis of interspecific variation in the swimming speed of fishes? Virtually all previous work
During the past 30 years, the influence of body size on the kinematics of locomotion in vertebrates has been the subject
The speed and size of an animal are important determinants of its locomotor behavior. For bony fishes, the influence of
INTEGR. COMP. BIOL., 42:10091017 (2002) Experimental Hydrodynamics and Evolution: Function of Median Fins in Ray-finned Fishes1
Measuring the forces exerted by organisms on the fluids through which they move is a difficult proposition. On land,
Comparative physiologists and neurobiologists have long been interested in the mechanisms used by aquatic organ-