escape response
- Escape responses of fish: a review of the diversity in motor control, kinematics and behaviour
Summary: This Review focuses on the diversity of the kinematics and neural control of escape responses and other accelerative motions that are of fundamental importance for predator–prey interactions and in other behavioural contexts.
- Developmental effects of heatwave conditions on the early life stages of a coral reef fish
Summary: Juvenile damselfish exposed in early life to a sufficient duration of heatwave conditions are smaller in size but have better predator-escape performance.
- Reorientation and propulsion in fast-starting zebrafish larvae: an inverse dynamics analysis
Summary: Fish larvae may independently adjust the direction and speed of their fast start escape response, a manoeuvre crucial for survival.
- Hypoxia tolerance of giant axon-mediated escape jetting in California market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens)
Summary: The escape response and underlying neural mechanisms in market squid can tolerate severe hypoxia through reduced neuromuscular activity, and complete recovery can occur after oxygen is replenished.
- The Mauthner cell in a fish with top-performance and yet flexibly tuned C-starts. I. Identification and comparative morphology
Summary: A pair of large Mauthner cells with striking morphological similarity to those of goldfish is present in the fast-start system of archerfish, a fish capable of precisely tuned high-performance C-starts.
- Novel neurobiological properties of elements in the escape circuitry of the shrimp
Summary: Myelinated medial giant fibers in the shrimp nerve cord are functionally interconnected, and have fast conduction velocities and fast synaptic transfer to motor giant fibers, with properties that suggest an ephaptic mechanism.
- Object approach computation by a giant neuron and its relationship with the speed of escape in the crab Neohelice
Summary: Visually guided behaviors operate in closed loop. In crabs, the information of approaching objects is encoded and conveyed by identified giant neurons to continuously regulate the speed of the escape run.
- By land or by sea: a modified C-start motor pattern drives the terrestrial tail-flip
Summary: The mangrove rivulus is an amphibious fish that uses a modified C-start escape response motor pattern to drive its terrestrial tail-flip behavior.
- Intraspecific variation in physiological performance of a benthic elasmobranch challenged by ocean acidification and warming
Summary: Juvenile little skates from neighboring locations, developmentally acclimatized to varying levels of ocean acidification and warming, exhibit substantial differences in escape and aerobic performance.
- The kinematics of directional control in the fast start of zebrafish larvae
Summary: The 3D direction of an escape response by a larval zebrafish is correlated with the degree of body rotation in yaw and pitch.