Snout allometry in seahorses: insights on optimisation of pivot feeding performance during ontogeny Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
As juvenile life-history stages are subjected to strong selection, these stages often show levels of performance approaching those of adults, or show a disproportionately rapid increase of performance with age. Although testing performance capacity in aquatic suction feeders is often problematic, in pivot feeders such as seahorses models have been proposed to estimate whether snout length is optimal to minimise the time needed to reach the prey. ...