...Katherine A. Corn; Stacy C. Farina; Adam P. Summers; Alice C. Gibb ABSTRACT Flatfishes use cyclic body undulations to force water into the sediment and fluidize substrate particles, displacing them into the water column. When water velocity decreases, suspended particles settle back onto the fish...

...Zélia Velez; Peter C. Hubbard; Eduardo N. Barata; Adelino V. M. Canário SUMMARY The Senegalese sole is a marine flatfish, which often penetrates into estuarine waters to feed. It cannot, however, survive in full freshwater. The current study investigated the effect of adaptation to low salinity...

...Paula C. Mendonça; A. Kurt Gamperl SUMMARY Previous studies have suggested that flatfish lack adrenergic cardiac innervation and have a limited humoral adrenergic stress response. However,data on neurohormonal control of flatfish cardiac function is scarce, and has never been directly studied...

...Emma J. Kelman; Palap Tiptus; Daniel Osorio SUMMARY Plaice ( Pleuronectes platessa ) is a flatfish well-known for the ability to vary its body pattern, probably for camouflage. This study investigates the repertoire of patterns used by juvenile plaice, by describing how they respond to shifts...

... early halibut somitogenesis. The expression of myogenin resembled that previously described for other fish species, and preceded the MyHC expression by approximately five somites. Two MyLC2 cDNA sequences were for the first time described for a flatfish, probably representing embryonic (MyLC2a...

... photoreceptor flatfish Hippoglossus hippoglossus . During their life cycle, fishes may change habitat and go through different developmental phases that have different light environments. Such changes in habitat are often related to remodelling processes within the organism known as metamorphosis...

...Alice C. Gibb ABSTRACT The kinematics of prey capture in two bilaterally asymmetrical pleuronectiform flatfish species ( Pleuronichthys verticalis and Xystreurys liolepis ) and two symmetrical percomorph species ( Lepomis macrochirus , a centrarchid, and Cheilinus digrammus , a labrid) were...

...Alice C. Gibb ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that one species of flatfish displays several functional asymmetries of the head and jaws during prey capture. However, it is not known whether the functional asymmetries observed for this species are common to all flatfishes. In order to determine...

... related to, the functional bilateral asymmetry present during feeding. 19 01 1995 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1995 prey capture feeding behavior kinematics flatfish hornyhead turbot asymmetry Pleuronichthys verticalis Pleuronectiform fishes (flatfishes) hatch...