... performance, particularly in small fishes with low absolute swimming speeds relative to environmental flows. I examined how wave-driven water flow affects the behaviour and kinematics of escape responses in juveniles of three coral reef damselfishes (Pomacentridae) with different body morphologies. Tropical...

... between free and fictive locomotor dynamics revealed very similar swimming frequencies for similarly sized animals, including a comparable developmental decrease of the swimming frequency. Body morphology and the motor output rhythm of the spinal central pattern generator therefore develop concurrently...

..., CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland. 9 3 1994 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1994 insects Formicidae ants terrestrial locomotion scale effects body morphology body size kinematics In walking insects, the coordination patterns of the legs reflect to a large extent...