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Hawkins OH, Crawford CH, Hoover RC, Kane EA. Intraspecific variation in feeding and locomotor kinematics during prey capture in redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus). J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol 2023; 339:706-722. [PMID: 37306263 DOI: 10.1002/jez.2721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 05/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Biomechanics research often revolves around understanding traits impacting suction feeding performance in fishes, using freshwater ray-finned sunfishes (Family Centrarchidae) as models. However, simultaneous feeding and locomotion kinematics during prey capture are not recorded for many species and there is less information on how these kinematics vary within a species and within individuals. To (1) add to existing data on the prey capture kinematics of centrarchids, (2) assess variation in a species both within and across individuals, and (3) compare morphology and prey capture kinematics of well-sampled centrarchids, we filmed five redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus) at 500 fps-1 approaching and striking non-evasive prey. Redbreast approach prey at ~30 cm s-1 and use approximately 70% of their maximum gape size. Traits related to feeding are more repeatable than traits related to locomotion. However, the Accuracy Index (AI) was consistent across individuals (AI = 0.76 ± 0.07). Functionally, redbreast sunfish are more similar to bluegill sunfish but morphologically they fall in the intermediate morphospace alongside green sunfish when compared with other centrarchids. These data show that whole organism outcomes (AI) are similar despite variation present both within and across individuals and demonstrate the importance of considering both interspecific and intraspecific differences in the functional diversity of ecologically and evolutionarily important behaviors such as prey capture.
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- Olivia H Hawkins
- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
- Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
- Department of Biology, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
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Hoover RC, Hawkins OH, Rosen J, Wilson CD, Crawford CH, Holst MM, Huie JM, Summers AP, Donatelli CM, Cohen KE. It Pays to Be Bumpy: Drag Reducing Armor in the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker, Eumicrotremus orbis. Integr Comp Biol 2023; 63:796-807. [PMID: 37336599 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023] Open
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Armor is a multipurpose set of structures that has evolved independently at least 30 times in fishes. In addition to providing protection, armor can manipulate flow, increase camouflage, and be sexually dimorphic. There are potential tradeoffs in armor function: increased impact resistance may come at the cost of maneuvering ability; and ornate armor may offer visual or protective advantages, but could incur excess drag. Pacific spiny lumpsuckers (Eumicrotremus orbis) are covered in rows of odontic, cone-shaped armor whorls, protecting the fish from wave driven impacts and the threat of predation. We are interested in measuring the effects of lumpsucker armor on the hydrodynamic forces on the fish. Bigger lumpsuckers have larger and more complex armor, which may incur a greater hydrodynamic cost. In addition to their protective armor, lumpsuckers have evolved a ventral adhesive disc, allowing them to remain stationary in their environment. We hypothesize a tradeoff between the armor and adhesion: little fish prioritize suction, while big fish prioritize protection. Using micro-CT, we compared armor volume to disc area over lumpsucker development and built 3D models to measure changes in drag over ontogeny. We found that drag and drag coefficients decrease with greater armor coverage and vary consistently with orientation. Adhesive disc area is isometric but safety factor increases with size, allowing larger fish to remain attached in higher flows than smaller fish.
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- R C Hoover
- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, 70503, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, CA
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, 70503, USA
- Department of Biology, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, 29528, USA
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- Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA, 98250, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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Crawford CH, Webber-Schultz A, Hart PB, Randall ZS, Cerrato-Morales C, Kellogg AB, Amplo HE, Suvarnaraksha A, Page LM, Chakrabarty P, Flammang BE. They like to move it (move it): walking kinematics of balitorid loaches of Thailand. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:274826. [PMID: 35322854 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Balitorid loaches are a family of fishes that exhibit morphological adaptations to living in fast flowing water, including an enlarged sacral rib that creates a 'hip'-like skeletal connection between the pelvis and the axial skeleton. The presence of this sacral rib, the robustness of which varies across the family, is hypothesized to facilitate terrestrial locomotion seen in the family. Terrestrial locomotion in balitorids is unlike that of any known fish: the locomotion resembles that of terrestrial tetrapods. Emergence and convergence of terrestrial locomotion from water to land has been studied in fossils; however, studying balitorid walking provides a present-day natural laboratory to examine the convergent evolution of walking movements. We tested the hypothesis that balitorid species with more robust connections between the pelvic and axial skeleton (M3 morphotype) are more effective at walking than species with reduced connectivity (M1 morphotype). We predicted that robust connections would facilitate travel per step and increase mass support during movement. We collected high-speed video of walking in seven balitorid species to analyze kinematic variables. The connection between internal anatomy and locomotion on land are revealed herein with digitized video analysis, μCT scans, and in the context of the phylogenetic history of this family of fishes. Our species sampling covered the extremes of previously identified sacral rib morphotypes, M1 and M3. Although we hypothesized the robustness of the sacral rib to have a strong influence on walking performance, there was not a large reduction in walking ability in the species with the least modified rib (M1). Instead, walking kinematics varied between the two balitorid subfamilies with a generally more 'walk-like' behavior in the Balitorinae and more 'swim-like' behavior in the Homalopteroidinae. The type of terrestrial locomotion displayed in balitorids is unique among living fishes and aids in our understanding of the extent to which a sacral connection facilitates terrestrial walking.
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- Callie H Crawford
- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.,Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70503, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Faculty of Fisheries Technology and Aquatic Resources, Maejo University, Chiang Mai 50290, Thailand
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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Cohen KE, Crawford CH, Hernandez LP, Beckert M, Nadler JH, Flammang BE. Sucker with a fat lip: The soft tissues underlying the viscoelastic grip of remora adhesion. J Anat 2020; 237:643-654. [PMID: 32484929 PMCID: PMC7495294 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2019] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Remoras are fishes that attach to a broad range of hosts using an adhesive disc on their head that is derived from dorsal fin elements. Research on the adhesive mechanism of remoras has focused primarily on the skeletal components of the disc and their contribution to generating suction and friction. However, the soft tissues of the disc, such as the soft lip surrounding the bony disc and the muscles that control the bony lamellae, have been largely ignored. To understand the sealing mechanism of the disc, it is imperative to understand the tissue morphology and material properties of the soft lip. Here, we show that the soft lip surrounding the remora disc is comprised of discrete multilayered collagen, fat, and elastic tissues which we hypothesize to have specific roles in the viscoelastic sealing mechanism of the remora disc. The central, heavily vascularized fat and collagen layer are infiltrated by strands of elastic tissue and surrounded by crossed-fiber collagen. A newly described jubilee muscle underneath the adhesive disc provides a mechanism for stopping venous return from the disc lip, thereby allowing it to become engorged and create a pressurized fit to the attachment substrate. Thus, the remora lip acts as a vascular hydrostat.
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- Karly E. Cohen
- Friday Harbor Labs, Department of BiologyUniversity of WashingtonSeattleWAUSA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Science and Engineering HallThe George Washington UniversityWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Department of Biological SciencesNew Jersey Institute of TechnologyNewarkNJUSA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Science and Engineering HallThe George Washington UniversityWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Advanced Concepts Research LaboratoryGeorgia Tech Research InstituteAtlantaGAUSA
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- Advanced Concepts Research LaboratoryGeorgia Tech Research InstituteAtlantaGAUSA
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- Department of Biological SciencesNew Jersey Institute of TechnologyNewarkNJUSA
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Crawford CH, Randall ZS, Hart PB, Page LM, Chakrabarty P, Suvarnaraksha A, Flammang BE. Skeletal and muscular pelvic morphology of hillstream loaches (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae). J Morphol 2020; 281:1280-1295. [PMID: 32790104 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 07/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The rheophilic hillstream loaches (Balitoridae) of South and Southeast Asia possess a range of pelvic girdle morphologies, which may be attributed to adaptations for locomotion against rapidly flowing water. Specifically, the connectivity of the pelvic plate (basipterygium) to the vertebral column via a sacral rib, and the relative size and shape of the sacral rib, fall within a spectrum of three discrete morphotypes: long, narrow rib that meets the basipterygium; thicker, slightly curved rib meeting the basipterygium; and robust crested rib interlocking with the basipterygium. Species in this third category with more robust sacral rib connections between the basipterygium and vertebral column are capable of walking out of water with a tetrapod-like lateral-sequence, diagonal-couplet gait. This behavior has not been observed in species lacking direct skeletal connection between the vertebrae and the pelvis. The phylogenetic positions of the morphotypes were visualized by matching the morphological features onto a novel hypothesis of relationships for the family Balitoridae. The morphotypes determined through skeletal morphology were correlated with patterns observed in the pelvic muscle morphology of these fishes. Transitions towards increasingly robust pelvic girdle attachment were coincident with a more anterior origin on the basipterygium and more lateral insertion of the muscles on the fin rays, along with a reduction of the superficial abductors and adductors with more posterior insertions. These modifications are expected to provide a mechanical advantage for generating force against the ground. Inclusion of the enigmatic cave-adapted balitorid Cryptotora thamicola into the most data-rich balitorid phylogeny reveals its closest relatives, providing insight into the origin of the skeletal connection between the axial skeleton and basipterygium.
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- Callie H Crawford
- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Faculty of Fisheries Technology and Aquatic Resources, Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Cohen KE, Flammang BE, Crawford CH, Hernandez LP. Knowing when to stick: touch receptors found in the remora adhesive disc. R Soc Open Sci 2020; 7:190990. [PMID: 32218935 PMCID: PMC7029896 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.190990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Remoras are fishes that piggyback onto larger marine fauna via an adhesive disc to increase locomotor efficiency, likelihood of finding mates and access to prey. Attaching rapidly to a large, fast-moving host is no easy task, and while research to date has focused on how the disc supports adhesion, no attention has been paid to how or if remoras are able to sense attachment. We identified push-rod-like mechanoreceptor complexes embedded in the soft lip of the remora adhesive disc that are known in other organisms to respond to touch and shear forces. This is, to our knowledge, the first time such mechanoreceptor complexes are described in fishes as they were only known previously in monotremes. The presence of push-rod-like mechanoreceptor complexes suggests not only that fishes may be able to sense their environment in ways not heretofore described but that specialized tactile mechanoreceptor complexes may be a more basal vertebrate feature than previously thought.
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- Karly E. Cohen
- Biology Department, University of Washington, Life Sciences Building, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Science and Engineering Hall, Suite 6000, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Biology Department, University of Washington, Life Sciences Building, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Cohen KE, Flammang BE, Crawford CH, Hernandez LP. Knowing when to stick: touch receptors found in the remora adhesive disc. R Soc Open Sci 2020. [PMID: 32218935 DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t9d744k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
Abstract
Remoras are fishes that piggyback onto larger marine fauna via an adhesive disc to increase locomotor efficiency, likelihood of finding mates and access to prey. Attaching rapidly to a large, fast-moving host is no easy task, and while research to date has focused on how the disc supports adhesion, no attention has been paid to how or if remoras are able to sense attachment. We identified push-rod-like mechanoreceptor complexes embedded in the soft lip of the remora adhesive disc that are known in other organisms to respond to touch and shear forces. This is, to our knowledge, the first time such mechanoreceptor complexes are described in fishes as they were only known previously in monotremes. The presence of push-rod-like mechanoreceptor complexes suggests not only that fishes may be able to sense their environment in ways not heretofore described but that specialized tactile mechanoreceptor complexes may be a more basal vertebrate feature than previously thought.
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- Karly E Cohen
- Biology Department, University of Washington, Life Sciences Building, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Science and Engineering Hall, Suite 6000, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Biology Department, University of Washington, Life Sciences Building, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Cohen KE, Hernandez LP, Crawford CH, Flammang BE. Channeling vorticity: Modeling the filter-feeding mechanism in silver carp using μCT and 3D PIV. J Exp Biol 2018; 221:jeb.183350. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.183350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Invasive silver carp are thriving within eutrophic environments in the United States due in part to their highly efficient filter-feeding mechanism. Like many filter feeding fishes, silver carp utilize modified gill rakers to capture a specific range of food; however, the greatly modified filtering morphology of silver carp allows them to feed on phytoplankton and zooplankton ranging in size from 4-85μm. The filtering apparatus of silver carp is comprised of rigid filtering plates where the outer anatomy of these plates is characterized by long parallel channels (riddled with openings of different sizes) that change in orientation along the length of the plate. Here we investigate the underlying morphology and concomitant hydrodynamics that support the filtration mechanisms of silver and bighead carp. Bighead carp are also invasive filter feeders but their filtering apparatus is morphologically distinct from silver carp composed of thin, flattened individual rakers more similar to that of filter feeders such as Brevoortia sp. or Anchoa sp. Gill rakers from adult silver and bighead carp were scanned using a micro CT scanner at 15.2 micron and 17.0 micron voxel resolution, respectively. Scans were segmented and reconstructed in 3D, printed as a 3D structure in resin, and placed in a 2200 L recirculating flow tank (into which 50 micron buoyant particles had been added) with water flowing across the model in an anteroposterior direction. Using 3D PIV, we determined how particles and fluid interact with the surface of the gill rakers/plates. Filtering plates in silver carp induce strong directed vortical flow whereas the filtering apparatus of bighead carp resulted in a type of haphazard crossflow filtration. The organized vortical flow established by silver carp likely increased the number of interactions that the particle-filled water has with the filtering membrane. This strong vortical organization is maintained only at 0.75BL(body lengths)/s and vortical flow is poorly developed and maintained at slower and faster speeds. Moreover, we found that absolute vorticity magnitude in silver carp is an order of magnitude greater than in bighead carp. Vortical flow established in the silver carp model suggests that this species is a more effective and likely efficient filter feeder than bighead carp, perhaps explaining the success of silver carp as an invasive species.
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- Karly E. Cohen
- The George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Science and Engineering Hall, 800 22nd St NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- The George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Science and Engineering Hall, 800 22nd St NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Sciences, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Sciences, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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Hagfishes (Myxinidae) often integrate whole-body knotting movements with jawless biting motions when reducing large marine carcasses to ingestible items. Adaptations for these behaviors include complex arrangements of axial muscles and flexible, elongate bodies without vertebrae. Between the axial muscles and the hagfish skin is a large, blood-filled subcutaneous sinus devoid of the intricate, myoseptal tendon networks characteristic of the taut skins of other fishes. We propose that the loose-fitting skin of the hagfish facilitates the formation and manipulation of body knots, even if it is of little functional significance to steady swimming. Hagfish skin is a relatively thick, anisotropic, multilayered composite material comprising a superficial, thin, and slimy epidermis, a middle dermal layer densely packed with fibrous tissues, and a deep subdermal layer comprised of adipose tissue. Hagfish skin is stiffer when pulled longitudinally than circumferentially. Stress-strain data from uniaxial tensile tests show that hagfish skins are comparable in tensile strength and stiffness to the taut skins of elongate fishes that do not engage in knotting behaviors (e.g., sea lamprey and penpoint gunnel). Sheath-core-constructed ropes, which serve as more accurate models for hagfish bodies, demonstrate that loose skin (extra sheathing) enhances flexibility of the body (rope). Along with a loose-fitting skin, the morphologies of hagfish skin parallel those of moray eels, which are also known for generating and manipulating figure-eight-style body knots when struggling with prey.
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- Andrew J Clark
- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424; and
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424; and
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424; and
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424; and
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- Department of Biology, Valdosta State University, 1500 N. Patterson Street, Valdosta, Georgia 31698
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Crawford CH, Kemper JM, Naylor GJP. Complete mitochondrial genome of the winghead shark, Eusphyra blochii (Elasmobranchii: Sphyrnidae). Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 2016; 1:233-234. [PMID: 33644347 PMCID: PMC7871859 DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1156488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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The complete mitochondrial genome (16,726 bp) of the winghead shark, Eusphyra blochii is presented. This species is exploited throughout parts of its range, and is currently listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List. A phylogenetic analysis placed E. blochii within the Carcharhiniformes, as a sister taxon to Sphyrna lewini and S. zygaena.
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- Hollings Marine Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA
- Hollings Marine Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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Antekeier SB, Antekeier DP, Crawford CH, Malkani AL. Accuracy of Computer Assisted Percutaneous Placement of Hiosacral Screws: A Cadaveric Study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 8:198-203. [PMID: 15360101 DOI: 10.3109/10929080309146054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of computer-assisted fluoronavigation for percutaneous iliosacral screw placement. MATERIALS AND METHODS A fluoronavigation system (Stryker Navigation System, Stryker Leibinger, Kalamazoo, MI) was used to guide the placement of four iliosacral screws into the S-1 bodies of each of five cadaveric pelvic specimens with intact soft tissues. Accuracy of screw placement was verified by radiographs, CT scans, and direct dissection. RESULTS All 20 screws were placed accurately without complications. Nineteen screws were completely contained within the osseous "safe zone." On direct dissection, one screw was noted to have penetrated the S-1 foramina by 3 mm without impingement on the nerve root. This was not detected on radiograph or CT scan. CONCLUSION The results of this study support the safety and accuracy of computer-assisted fluoronavigation for iliosacral screw placement. The advantages include decreased fluoroscopic time, real-time simultaneous visualization of all three views (inlet, outlet, and lateral), and increased accuracy of placement. Clinical study is warranted.
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- S B Antekeier
- Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
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