Despite almost 50 years of research on the functional morphology and biomechanics of suction
feeding, no consensus has emerged on how to characterize suction-feeding performance…

Larval fishes suffer prodigious mortality rates, eliminating 99% of the brood within a few days
after first feeding. Hjort (1914) famously attributed this “critical period” of low survival to the …

Suction feeding is pervasive among aquatic vertebrates, and our understanding of the
functional morphology and biomechanics of suction feeding has recently been advanced by …

Research on suction-feeding performance has mostly focused on measuring individual
underlying components such as suction pressure, flow velocity, ram or the effects of suction-…

The ability to protrude the jaws during prey capture is a hallmark of teleost fishes, widely
recognized as one of the most significant innovations in their diverse and mechanically complex …

The morphology of branching corals effectively blocks impinging currents. Weak flows in the
colony’s inner sections can hinder some of the corals’ basic physiological functions. At night…

Morphological diversification does not proceed evenly across the organism. Some body
parts tend to evolve at higher rates than others, and these rate biases are often attributed to …

The larval pool of coral reef fish has a crucial role in the dynamics of adult fish populations.
However, large-scale species-level monitoring of species-rich larval pools has been …

Trade-offs are believed to impose major constraints on adaptive evolution, and they arise
when modification of a trait improves one aspect of performance but incurs a cost in another. …

To capture prey with suction, fish must get sufficiently close to their prey to allow the suction
flow to overwhelm the prey and draw it into the mouth. Both swimming towards the prey and …