...Guillermina Alcaraz; Brenda Toledo; Luis M. Burciaga ABSTRACT Crashing waves create a hydrodynamic gradient in which the most challenging effects occur at the wave breaking zone and decrease towards the upper protected tide pools. Hydrodynamic forces depend on the shape of the submerged body...

... concentrations, groups of InsP 3 receptors release Ca 2+ to form puffs which fail to spread because neighbouring receptors are less excitable. At high concentrations of InsP 3 , all the receptors are excitable and puffs then act as initiation sites to spawn a regenerative wave that spreads through the process...

..., turtles initially orient seawards by swimming into waves, which can be detected as orbital movements from under water. Laboratory experiments have demonstrated that turtles can transfer a course initiated on the basis of waves or visual cues to a course mediated by a magnetic compass. Thus, by setting...

...Kenneth J. Lohmann; Andrew W. Swartz; Catherine M. F. Lohmann ABSTRACT At the beginning of their offshore migration, hatchling sea turtles enter the ocean at night and establish a course away from land by swimming directly into oceanic waves. How turtles can detect wave direction while swimming...

...Kenneth J. Lohmann; Catherine M. Fittinghoff Lohmann ABSTRACT Minutes after emerging from underground nests, hatchling green turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) enter the sea and begin a migration towards the open ocean. To test the hypothesis that migrating hatchlings use wave cues to maintain...