Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "dorsal fin"
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Dorsal and anal fin function in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus: three-dimensional kinematics during propulsion and maneuvering
(The Company of Biologists, 2005)Dorsal and anal fins are median fins located above and below the centre of mass of fishes, each having a moment arm relative to the longitudinal axis. Understanding the kinematics of dorsal and anal fins may elucidate how ... -
Escaping Flatland: three-dimensional kinematics and hydrodynamics of median fins in fishes
(The Company of Biologists, 2008)Fish swimming has often been simplified into the motions of a two-dimensional slice through the horizontal midline, as though fishes live in a flat world devoid of a third dimension. While fish bodies do undulate primarily ... -
Hydrodynamic function of dorsal and anal fins in brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
(The Company of Biologists, 2007)Recent kinematic and hydrodynamic studies on fish median fins have shown that dorsal fins actively produce jets with large lateral forces. Because of the location of dorsal fins above the fish’s rolling axis, these lateral ... -
Locomotor function of the dorsal fin in rainbow trout: kinematic patterns and hydrodynamic forces
(The Company of Biologists, 2005)In this study, we examine the kinematics and hydrodynamics of the soft dorsal fin in a representative basal teleost, the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), during steady rectilinear locomotion at 0.5–2.0 body lengths ...