What mechanisms of flow control do animals use to enhance hydrodynamic performance?
Animals are capable of manipulating flow around the body and appendages both passively …

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration
of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, physiology, and ecology of …

Most fishes commonly experience unsteady flows and hydrodynamic perturbations during
their lifetime. In this study, we provide evidence that rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss …

Over the past 520 million years, the process of evolution has produced a diversity of nearly
25000 species of fish. This diversity includes thousands of different fin designs which are …

Publisher Summary The chapter focuses on recent experimental hydrodynamic data on
undulatory locomotion in fishes, and provides a general description of the major theoretical …

SUMMARY A key evolutionary transformation of the locomotor system of ray-finned fishes is
the morphological elaboration of the dorsal fin. Within Teleostei, the dorsal fin primitively is a …

As members of the derived teleost fish clade Scombridae, mackerel exhibit high-
performance aquatic locomotion via oscillation of the homocercal forked caudal fin. We …

The fins of fishes are remarkable propulsive devices that appear at the origin of fishes about
500 million years ago and have been a key feature of fish evolutionary diversification. Most …

Over the past 20 years, experimental analyses of the biomechanics of locomotion in fishes
have generated a number of key findings that are relevant to the construction of biomimetic …

Understanding how fishes generate external fluid force to swim steadily and maneuver has
proven to be difficult because water does not provide a stable platform for force …