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Pectoral fin coordination and gait transitions in steadily swimming juvenile reef fishes
... synchronous fin beats (Arreola and Westneat, ...alternating pectoral fin locomotion than for synchronous, supporting the steadiness hypothesis ...synchronous fin coordination would be highest ...
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Effects of intraspecific variation in reproductive traits, pectoral fin use and burst swimming on metabolic rates and swimming performance in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
... in pectoral fin use? A likely mechanism involves variable needs to support swimming stability and ...swimmers, pectoral fins are not used for forward thrust generation, but play an important role as ...
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Pectoral fin locomotion in batoid fishes: undulation versus oscillation
... the pectoral fins, termed ‘mobuliform’ locomotion (Webb, 1994) is more similar to flapping in birds; the fins move up and down with less than half a wave on the ...of pectoral fin locomotion suggests ...
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Pectoral fin locomotion in the striped surfperch II Scaling swimming kinematics and performance at a gait transition
... of pectoral fin musculature or the allometry of relevant muscle lever arms, and thus the effects of neuromuscular and skeletal maturation and of body size cannot be separated in this ...the pectoral ...
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The relationship between pectoral fin ray stiffness and swimming behavior in Labridae: insights into design, performance and ecology
... the fin chord ...The pectoral fins of ...their fin stroke (Walker and Westneat, ...the fin could be generated ...Detailed fin kinematics and deformation patterns in the rower, ...the ...
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Numerical simulation of a pectoral fin during labriform swimming
... idealized pectoral fin in labriform ...caudal fin dynamics (Zhu and Shoele, 2008) and pectoral fin dynamics in pure lift-based locomotion (Shoele and Zhu, 2009), our current work ...
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Analysis of Bio-inspired Kinematic Patterns Pectoral Fin with Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)
... flexible pectoral fin in ...the pectoral fin is a very complex, which was very difficult to obtain the kinematic patterns of the pectoral ...marked fin rays motion in retreating ...
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Mudskipper pectoral fin kinematics in aquatic and terrestrial environments
... use pectoral fins for their primary mode of locomotion on land and pectoral fins in conjunction with the axial musculature and caudal fin to move in ...distinct pectoral fin movements ...
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The Polycomb group protein Ring1b is essential for pectoral fin development
... the fin bud in a dose-dependent manner and partially rescued fin bud outgrowth in ring1b homozygotes at 72 hpf ...of fin bud ...for pectoral fin development in ...
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Pectoral fin locomotion in the striped surfperch I Kinematic effects of swimming speed and body size
... consecutive pectoral fin ...which pectoral fin oscillation was supplemented by unsteady axial undulation, the fish had to match the current velocity (±5 %) for at least three consecutive ...
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Dynamics of pectoral fin rowing in a fish with an extreme rowing stroke: the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
... paired pectoral fins that present a stereotypical rowing ...stickleback fin, with its multiple, independently actuated bony struts supporting a thin, flexible membrane, results in less wasted energy than ...
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KINEMATICS OF PECTORAL FIN LOCOMOTION IN THE BLUEGILL SUNFISH LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS
... the fin as consisting of a series of straight, rather than curved, ...ventral fin elements often differ considerably, particularly at the slowest ...the fin surface is actually curved during most of ...
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Kinematic and electromyographic analysis of steady pectoral fin swimming in the surfperches
... trailing-edge fin rays (2–23 in Embiotoca lateralis; 2–27 in Amphistichus ...two fin rays are separate along their entire length from the rest of the ...the fin form progressively less discrete ...
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The Polycomb group protein Ring1b is essential for pectoral fin development
... the pectoral fin developmental program, we generated apc/ring1b ...that fin outgrowth is initiated in the apc/ring1b animals, as a small fin bud visible at 40 hpf, continued to grow and gave ...
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Comparative anatomy of pectoral girdle and pectoral fin in Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish
... — pectoral-fin spine — that is characterised by the significant morphological heterogeneity among different sturgeon species [2, ...The pectoral-fin spine is formed by the fusion of the first ...
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Batoid locomotion: effects of speed on pectoral fin deformation in the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea
... high fin-beat frequency and low amplitude are considered benthic and they are tuned for maneuverability and slow ...skate pectoral fin locomotion, as this group presents species with a range of ...
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Functional implications of morphological specializations among the pectoral fin rays of the benthic longhorn sculpin
... fan-like pectoral fins to support their weight and rapidly push off from the substrate as well as for swimming in the open water (Taft et ...the pectoral fin of this species is functionally ...
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The osr1 and osr2 genes act in the pronephric anlage downstream of retinoic acid signaling and upstream of wnt2b to maintain pectoral fin development
... during pectoral fin ...the fin precursor territories showing tbx5a expression (F, ...the fin bud (J), whereas osr2 is found in two patched domains within the tbx5a-expressing territory (K, ...
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Functional morphology of undulatory pectoral fin locomotion in the stingray taeniura lymma (Chondrichthyes: dasyatidae)
... Electromyographic (EMG) data were used to quantify muscle activity in swimming Taeniura lymma. EMG data were recorded from three individuals over a range of swimming speeds. Rays were anesthetized by putting 2 g of ...
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Mechanism of pectoral fin outgrowth in zebrafish development
... in fin development remain ...the pectoral fin ...the pectoral fin AER prior to the transition in hspGFFDMC131A;UAS:GFP fish, suggesting a common function in the AER and ...in fin ...
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