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Sound production mechanism in carapid fish: first example with a slow sonic muscle
Parmentier, Eric; Lagardere, J. P.; Braquegnier, J. B. et al.
2006In Journal of Experimental Biology, 209 (15), p. 2952-2960
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Keywords :
carapidae; sound production; sonic muscle; sonic mechanism; swimbladder
Abstract :
[en] Fish sonic swimbladder muscles are the fastest muscles in vertebrates and have fibers with numerous biochemical and structural adaptations for speed. Carapid fishes produce sounds with a complex swimbladder mechanism, including skeletal components and extrinsic sonic muscle fibers with an exceptional helical myofibrillar structure. To study this system we stimulated the sonic muscles, described their insertion and action and generated sounds by slowly pulling the sonic muscles. We find the sonic muscles contract slowly, pulling the anterior bladder and thereby stretching a thin fenestra. Sound is generated when the tension trips a release system that causes the fenestra to snap back to its resting position. The sound frequency does not correspond to the calculated resonant frequency of the bladder, and we hypothesize that it is determined by the snapping fenestra interacting with an overlying bony swimbladder plate. To our knowledge this tension release mechanism is unique in animal sound generation.
Disciplines :
Zoology
Author, co-author :
Parmentier, Eric  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Morphologie fonctionnelle et évolutive
Lagardere, J. P.
Braquegnier, J. B.
Vandewalle, Pierre ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Morphologie fonctionnelle et évolutive
Fine, M. L.
Language :
English
Title :
Sound production mechanism in carapid fish: first example with a slow sonic muscle
Publication date :
01 August 2006
Journal title :
Journal of Experimental Biology
ISSN :
0022-0949
eISSN :
1477-9145
Publisher :
Company Of Biologists Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Volume :
209
Issue :
15
Pages :
2952-2960
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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