Contribution of the red and white muscles to the power output required for swimming by the yellowtail.
Contribution of the red and white muscles to the power output required for swimming by the yellowtail.
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红色和白色肌肉对黄尾鱼游泳所需的功率输出的贡献。
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10.2331/suisan.50.2031
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1984
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K. Tsukamoto
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K. Tsukamoto
The mechanism of locomotion of aquatic animals has long been a matter of interests to zoologists. he so-called "Gray's Paradox" proved to be an incentive that caused a bloom of interest in swim ming energetics and the hydrodynamics of aquatic animals.1) Although considerable attention has been paid to aquatic locomotion since then, comparatively little is known of the power output required for swimming because of the technical problems involved in measurement. A few at tempts have been made to measure the thrust power directly.2-4) Most of the methods, how ever, suffer from the common disadvantage that it is difficult to relate the thrust power to the actual swimming speed. As for indirect measurements, various methods have been reported. For ex ample, BREiT') calculated the energy required for swimming by young sockeye salmon through the measurement of oxygen uptake. This method can make an exact estimation when energy is derived solely from aerobic process, but above the max mun sustained speed, where energy is derived largely through anaerobic processes, the method has to rely on extrapolation based on data obtain ed in the aerobic range. WEBB,8' by adding extra drag load to fish, obtained the relationship between the thrust or power output and swimming speed. Although this unique method can cover the whole spectrum of swimming speed, it does not yield information on how the red and white muscles contribute to the power output required for swim ming at a particular speed. It is the purpose of this study to examine the power output and function of these two types of locomotor muscle. In this paper, the electromyogram of the red and white muscles of the yellowtail Seriola quinqueradiata will be used to estimate the power produced by each muscle at various swimming speeds, and the contribution of each muscle to swimming performance will be discussed. As a result, two impor tant critical points in fish locomotion will be pro posed on the basis of muscle activity. Further-