... Island, Maine, USA and Pacific hagfish [ Eptatretus stoutii (Lockington 1878)] were collected in Barkley Sound near Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada. Both species were housed in 2000 liter tanks filled with chilled artificial seawater (34‰, 10°C) at the Hagen Aqualab at the University of Guelph...

..., we analyzed videos of Atlantic hagfish ( Myxine glutinosa ) and Pacific hagfish ( Eptatretus stoutii ) moving through narrow apertures in the lab. We measured changes in body width as the animals moved through these openings and documented the behaviors associated with this ability. We found...

...Todd E. Gillis; Matthew D. Regan; Georgina K. Cox; Till S. Harter; Colin J. Brauner; Jeff G. Richards; Anthony P. Farrell ABSTRACT Pacific hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii , can recover from 36 h of anoxia at 10°C. Such anoxia tolerance demands the mobilization of anaerobic fuels and the removal...

... glutinosa ) requires both the presence of mucins and hydrodynamic mixing. In contrast, skeins from Pacific hagfish ( Eptatretus stoutii ) unravel in the absence of both mucins and mixing. We tested the hypothesis that spontaneous unraveling of E. stoutii skeins is triggered by the dissolution of a seawater...

... tolerant, the objective of the present study was to characterize the cardiac responses in the Pacific hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii (Lockington 1878), to prolonged anoxia because most vertebrate hearts do not tolerate even severe hypoxia. It has been suggested that the ability to maintain cardiac function...

...Andrew J. Clark; Adam P. Summers SUMMARY As in gnathostomes, the hagfish feeding apparatus includes skeletal, dental and muscular components. In the present study, we examined feeding morphology and kinematics in two hagfish species, Eptatretus stoutii and Myxine glutinosa , representing the two...

... slime hagfish gill resistance predator defence Eptatretus stoutii An agitated hagfish can release an enormous amount of slime from the numerous slime glands lining its body( Ferry, 1941 ; Strahan, 1959 ; Downing et al., 1981a ; Martini, 1998 ). In a previous paper ( Fudge et al., 2005...

... Limited 1996 rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss hagfish Eptatretus stoutii dogfish Squalus acanthias rat myocardium sarcolemma sarcoplasmic reticulum excitation–contraction coupling. Fishes have developed cardiovascular systems which must function under very different...