... for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) * Deceased ‡ Present address: Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA 8 3 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 archival tag endothermy Scombridae swimming speed temperature thermoregulation...

....,2000 ; Graham and Dickson,2000). In addition, shifts in the pattern of RM vascular supply may have established the basis for counter-current heat transfer and for the origin of endothermy (Graham and Dickson, 2000 , 2001). Fishes in the family Scombridae such as the mackerels (tribe Scombrini...

... of morphological characteristics. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) 7 5 2003 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2003 2003 locomotion swimming kinematics Scombridae eastern Pacific bonito Sarda chiliensis thunniform carangiform tuna References...

...D. Bernal; C. Sepulveda; O. Mathieu-Costello; J. B. Graham SUMMARY Tunas (family Scombridae) and sharks in the family Lamnidae are highly convergent for features commonly related to efficient and high-performance(i.e. sustained, aerobic) swimming. High-performance swimming by fishes requires...

... The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 Scombridae chub mackerel Scomber japonicus locomotion kinematics cost of transport metabolism sustained swimming energetics respirometer temperature This paper reports the effects of a 6°C difference in water temperature on sustained...

...Jeanine M. Donley; Kathryn A. Dickson ABSTRACT The swimming kinematics of two active pelagic fishes from the family Scombridae were compared to test the hypothesis that the kawakawa tuna (Euthynnus affinis) uses the thunniform mode of locomotion, in which the body is held more rigid and undergoes...

...Chugey Sepulveda; Kathryn A. Dickson ABSTRACT Tunas (Scombridae) have been assumed to be among the fastest and most efficient swimmers because they elevate the temperature of the slow-twitch, aerobic locomotor muscle above the ambient water temperature (endothermy) and because of their streamlined...

... retention that result in the development of endothermy. * e-mail: [email protected] 25 7 2000 26 9 2000 © 2000 by Company of Biologists 2000 Scombridae tuna Euthynnus lineatus Scomberomorus sierra counter-current heat exchanger development endothermy fish...

... ‡ Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]); address from 1 October 1999: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 14 07 1999 25 08 1999 © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 locomotion swimming tail function Scombridae Scomber...

...Kathryn A. Dickson ABSTRACT Tunas (family Scombridae) maintain muscle temperatures (T m) elevated significantly above ambient water temperature (T a) by using vascular counter-current heat exchangers (retia mirabilia) to conserve metabolic heat generated by continuous contraction of red muscle...