The Mechanics and Physiology of Animal Swimming
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This volume brings together research on a wide range of swimming organisms, with an emphasis on the biomechanics, physiology and hydrodynamics of swimming.
Introduction11Functional patterns of swimming bacteria32Buoyancy and swimming in marine planktonic protists133The role of fins in the competition between squid and fish274The biology of fish swimming455Swimming physiology of pelagic fishes6The mechanical design of the fish muscular system757How do fish use their myotomal muscle to swim? In vitro simulations of in vivo activity patterns998The timing of lateral muscle strain and EMG activity in different species of steadily swimming fish1119Swimming in the lamprey: modelling the neural pattern generation, the body dynamics and the fluid mechanics11910Swimming capabilities of Mesozoic marine reptiles: a review13311Stone, bone or blubber? Buoyancy control strategies in aquatic tetrapods15112Functional anatomy of the 'flight' apparatus in penguins16313Energy conservation by formation swimming: metabolic evidence from ducklings193Bibliography205Index231
