... feeding variation. Feeding performance Adductor mandibulae Force–length relationship Salmonidae Functional morphology A long-known fundamental property of skeletal muscles is that force output varies with fiber length ( Ramsey and Street, 1940 ). Fiber length change constrains force...

... to feeding performance. The second method of applying muscle forces to the skull was a 3-D Distributed Traction method that we developed to distribute forces over each muscle's respective attachment region on the skull as determined from dissections. We manipulated the 3-D surface models of the skulls...

... bite force and feeding performance (handling time) may exist in lizards( Verwaijen et al., 2002 ). The increase in accessibility of seeds and faster husking times with increasing bite force raises the question of why low bite force may be adaptive in some species (cf. Grant et al.,1976 ). Bite force...

...P. C. Wainwright ABSTRACT The functional basis of learning in prey capture was investigated in the pumpkin-seed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) . Feeding performance of sunfishes was assessed when the fish were first fed a novel, elusive prey (guppies) and compared with their performance after several...