... line system may aid in a school's cohesion. However, it remains unclear to what extent flow provides a channel of communication between schooling fish. Based on kinematic measurements of the speed and heading of schooling tetras ( Petitella rhodostoma ), we found that compromising the lateral line...

... the sensory basis for this underappreciated behavior of larval fish. A strong candidate is the mechanosensory lateral line, a hair cell-based sensory system that detects hydrodynamic information from sources such as water currents, predators, prey and surface waves. However, a role for the lateral line...

... to these environmental changes. We tested the hypothesis that lateral line and visual input are responsible for the sensory-driven increase in swimming kinematics in response to experimentally increased fluid viscosity. The kinematics of five P. senegalus were recorded in two different viscosities of water while...

... sources of current-borne odors, to intercept invertebrate drift and, in general, to conserve energy while preventing downstream displacement. Sensory information available for rheotaxis includes water-motion cues to the lateral line and body-motion cues to visual, vestibular or tactile senses when fish...

...Julie M. Butler; Karen P. Maruska ABSTRACT Signals produced during social interactions convey crucial information about the sender's identity, quality, reproductive state and social status. Fishes can detect near-body water movements via the mechanosensory lateral line system, and this sense...

... experiments. Flow field Lateral line Hydrodynamic stimulation Miniature accelerometer Vibrating sphere Digital signal processor The lateral line system of fishes is highly sensitive to water movements and pressure gradients (e.g. Coombs et al., 2014 ). A vibrating sphere generates a well...

... of the lateral-line organs . Biol. Rev.   38 , 51 - 105 . 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1963.tb00654.x Easter , S. S. , Jr and Nicola , G. N. ( 1996 ). The development of vision in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) . Dev. Biol.   180 , 646 - 663 . 10.1006/dbio.1996.0335 Fetcho , J. R...

...Gary E. Baker; Willem J. de Grip; Michael Turton; Hans-Joachim Wagner; Russell G. Foster; Ron H. Douglas ABSTRACT Using immunohistochemistry and western blot analysis, we demonstrate that melanopsin is localised in cells around the central pore of lateral line neuromasts in the African clawed frog...

...Matthew Kulpa; Joseph Bak-Coleman; Sheryl Coombs ABSTRACT When encountering a unidirectional flow, many fish exhibit an unconditioned orienting response known as rheotaxis. This multisensory behavior can reportedly involve visual, vestibular, tactile and lateral line cues. However, the precise...

... to favourable would facilitate reattachment of the detached shear layer to the fish surface immediately downstream from the separation point by eliminating the reversed flow direction in the separation bubble ( O'Meara and Mueller, 1987 ). Provided that lateral-line afferents that innervate the hair cells...

.... Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Bioacoustics Cephalopod Hearing Noise Loudness Invertebrate Ear Statocyst Lateral line Sound in aquatic environments is a widely available cue that many marine vertebrates use during vital biological activities such as foraging, predator...

... in front of the predator using the lateral line system. This flow, known as the bow wave, was visualized and modeled with computational fluid dynamics. According to the predictions of the model, larvae direct their escape away from the side of their body exposed to more rapid flow. This suggests that prey...

... non-visual sensory systems, in particular the flow-sensing lateral line, is poorly understood, largely because of widely varying methods and sensory conditions for studying rheotaxis. Here, we examine how sedentary behavior under visually deprived conditions affects the relative importance of lateral...

...Allison B. Coffin; David G. Zeddies; Richard R. Fay; Andrew D. Brown; Peter W. Alderks; Ashwin A. Bhandiwad; Robert A. Mohr; Michael D. Gray; Peter H. Rogers; Joseph A. Sisneros We investigated the roles of the swim bladder and the lateral line system in sound localization behavior by the plainfin...

... are potentially stimulated by the particle motion component of sound. The encoding of the anterior lateral line nerve to acoustic stimuli in freely behaving oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau , was examined. Nerve sensitivity and directional responses were determined using spike rate and vector strength analysis...

... sensory conditions on the spatiotemporal dynamics of rheotaxis. Although the overall ability of giant danio ( Devario aequipinnatus ) to head upstream is largely unaffected by either unimodal or bimodal deprivation of visual and/or lateral line senses, the spatiotemporal form of the behavior is altered...

... of −19 to −10 dB re. 1 m s −2 , respectively. Hearing thresholds of prepulse tones were considerably lower than previously predicted by startle response assays. The PPI assay was also used to investigate the relative contribution of the lateral line to the detection of acoustic stimuli. After...

...Julia A. Sampson; Jim Duston; Roger P. Croll SUMMARY To investigate whether mechanoreception is used in non-visual feeding in larval striped bass ( Morone saxatilis ), the ontogeny of superficial neuromasts along the lateral line was described using the vital stain FM1-43FX and fluorescent...

... in the dark to remove visual input and/or temporarily blocking lateral line input via immersion in cobalt chloride. Fish used their pectoral fins to touch obstacles as they swam slowly past them under all conditions. Loss of visual and/or lateral line sensory input resulted in an increased number of fin taps...

... published work, that these are derived embryonically from lateral line placodes. Finally, we review hypotheses to explain the distribution of electroreception within teleosts, including the hypothesis that teleost ampullary and tuberous electroreceptors evolved via the modification of mechanosensory hair...