Kelly Tarlton's Scholarship

Cindy Baker
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland MSc

The detection of water currents by Antarctic fish

This research investigated the role of the mechanosensory lateral line of Antarctic fish in the detection of water currents.

Publications
Baker, C.F., Montgomery, J.C. Lateral line mediated rheotaxis in the Antarctic fish Pagothenia borchgrevinki. Polar biology 21: 305-309, 1999.

Montgomery, J.C., Baker, C.F., Carton, A.G. The lateral line can mediate rheotaxis in fish. Nature 389: 960-963, 1997.

Baker C. Water currents and the mechanosensory lateral line. MSc, University of Auckland, 1997.