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graduate student, to run with her lateral line project (it was initially a “side project”), which she
did. He followed this up with a generous invitation to visit his lab to do extensive SEM work,
which formed the basis for a chapter of her PhD dissertation, and inspiration for lateral line studies
over the next several decades. JFW was asked by Art Popper and Dick Fay to co-organize a key
conference on fi sh bioacoustics (2001), which was a great experience. They shared their invaluable
editorial expertise in the course of preparing the co-edited 2008 SHAR volume on Fish
Bioacoustics —their wisdom, collegiality, and mentorship will be long remembered. JFW thanks
former graduate students Dr. W. Leo Smith, J. Luke Herman, and Christopher Woods (whose
unpublished MS Thesis is cited herein), undergraduates Ryan Walsh, Nicole Cicchino, and Natasha
Kelly, and Drs. Brandon Casper, Darlene Ketten, and David Mann for their contributions to our
work on butterfl yfi shes.
TCT thanks Art Popper for giving him his fi rst job as a doctoral student building wire-wrap
amplifi er circuits for hearing experiments at the Univeristy of Hawai’i, and also for sparking his
interest to understand how and why fi sh hear in their natural environments. TCT thanks Dick Fay
for his inspiration and friendship during his early days of neurobiology investigations at Washington
University in St. Louis and Woods Hole. TCT also thanks his former undergraduate students Jon
Dale and Emily Donham, and graduate students Kelly Boyle, Adam Dewan and Karen Maruska
for their many hours together investigating the adaptive functions of hearing and sound production
in coral reef fi shes; and he thanks JFW, Whitlow Au, Marc Lammers, Joe Sisneros, David Mann,
and John Allen III for many lively discussions on fi sh acoustic behaviors and hearing.
Research in the Webb Lab was supported by a HHMI grant to Villanova University (for support
of undergraduates) and NSF grants IBN-9603896 and IBN-0132607. Research in the Tricas Lab
was supported by NSF grant IBN-0137883; NOAA’s Undersea Research Program and Coral Reef
Conservation Program, and the Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory under NOAA award
NA05OAR4301108.
References
Amorim MCP (2006) Diversity of sound production in fi sh. In: Ladich F, Collin SP, Moller P,
Kapoor BG (eds) Communication in fi shes, vol I. Science Publishers, Enfi eld, pp 71–104
Amoser S, Ladich F (2005) Are hearing sensitivities of freshwater fi sh adapted to the ambient
noise in their habitats? J Exp Biol 208:3533–3542
Au WWL, Hastings MC (2008) Principles of marine bioacoustics. Springer, New York
Bellwood DR, Klanten S, Cowman PF, Pratchett MS, Konow S, Van Herwerden L (2010)
Evolutionary history of the butterfl yfi shes (f: Chaetodontidae) and the rise of coral feeding
fi shes. J Evol Biol 23:335–349
Blum SD (1988) Osteology and phylogeny of the Chaetodontidae (Pisces: Perciformes).
Dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 356 p
Boyle KS, Tricas TC (2010) Pulse sound generation, anterior swim bladder buckling, and associated muscle activity in the pyramid butterfl yfi sh, Hemitaurichthys polylepis . J Exp Biol
213:3881–3893
Boyle KS, Tricas TC (2011) Sound production in the longnose butterfl yfi shes (genus Forcipiger ):
cranial kinematics, muscle activity and honest signals. J Exp Biol 214:3829–3842
Boyle KS, Tricas TC (2014) Discrimination of mates and intruders: visual and olfactory cues for a
monogamous territorial coral reef butterfl yfi sh. Anim Behav 92:33–43
Boyle KS, Dewan AK, Tricas TC (2013) Fast drum strokes: novel and convergent features of sonic
muscle ultrastructure, innervation, and motor neuron organization in the pyramid butterfl yfi sh
( Hemitaurichthys polylepis ). J Morphol 274:377–394
Braun CB, Coombs S (2010) Vibratory sources as compound stimuli for the octavolateralis systems: dissection of specifi c stimulation channels using multiple behavioral approaches. J Exp
Psychol Anim Behav Process 36:243–257
Acoustic Communication in Butterfl yfi shes…
graduate student, to run with her lateral line project (it was initially a “side project”), which she
did. He followed this up with a generous invitation to visit his lab to do extensive SEM work,
which formed the basis for a chapter of her PhD dissertation, and inspiration for lateral line studies
over the next several decades. JFW was asked by Art Popper and Dick Fay to co-organize a key
conference on fi sh bioacoustics (2001), which was a great experience. They shared their invaluable
editorial expertise in the course of preparing the co-edited 2008 SHAR volume on Fish
Bioacoustics —their wisdom, collegiality, and mentorship will be long remembered. JFW thanks
former graduate students Dr. W. Leo Smith, J. Luke Herman, and Christopher Woods (whose
unpublished MS Thesis is cited herein), undergraduates Ryan Walsh, Nicole Cicchino, and Natasha
Kelly, and Drs. Brandon Casper, Darlene Ketten, and David Mann for their contributions to our
work on butterfl yfi shes.
TCT thanks Art Popper for giving him his fi rst job as a doctoral student building wire-wrap
amplifi er circuits for hearing experiments at the Univeristy of Hawai’i, and also for sparking his
interest to understand how and why fi sh hear in their natural environments. TCT thanks Dick Fay
for his inspiration and friendship during his early days of neurobiology investigations at Washington
University in St. Louis and Woods Hole. TCT also thanks his former undergraduate students Jon
Dale and Emily Donham, and graduate students Kelly Boyle, Adam Dewan and Karen Maruska
for their many hours together investigating the adaptive functions of hearing and sound production
in coral reef fi shes; and he thanks JFW, Whitlow Au, Marc Lammers, Joe Sisneros, David Mann,
and John Allen III for many lively discussions on fi sh acoustic behaviors and hearing.
Research in the Webb Lab was supported by a HHMI grant to Villanova University (for support
of undergraduates) and NSF grants IBN-9603896 and IBN-0132607. Research in the Tricas Lab
was supported by NSF grant IBN-0137883; NOAA’s Undersea Research Program and Coral Reef
Conservation Program, and the Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory under NOAA award
NA05OAR4301108.
References
Amorim MCP (2006) Diversity of sound production in fi sh. In: Ladich F, Collin SP, Moller P,
Kapoor BG (eds) Communication in fi shes, vol I. Science Publishers, Enfi eld, pp 71–104
Amoser S, Ladich F (2005) Are hearing sensitivities of freshwater fi sh adapted to the ambient
noise in their habitats? J Exp Biol 208:3533–3542
Au WWL, Hastings MC (2008) Principles of marine bioacoustics. Springer, New York
Bellwood DR, Klanten S, Cowman PF, Pratchett MS, Konow S, Van Herwerden L (2010)
Evolutionary history of the butterfl yfi shes (f: Chaetodontidae) and the rise of coral feeding
fi shes. J Evol Biol 23:335–349
Blum SD (1988) Osteology and phylogeny of the Chaetodontidae (Pisces: Perciformes).
Dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 356 p
Boyle KS, Tricas TC (2010) Pulse sound generation, anterior swim bladder buckling, and associated muscle activity in the pyramid butterfl yfi sh, Hemitaurichthys polylepis . J Exp Biol
213:3881–3893
Boyle KS, Tricas TC (2011) Sound production in the longnose butterfl yfi shes (genus Forcipiger ):
cranial kinematics, muscle activity and honest signals. J Exp Biol 214:3829–3842
Boyle KS, Tricas TC (2014) Discrimination of mates and intruders: visual and olfactory cues for a
monogamous territorial coral reef butterfl yfi sh. Anim Behav 92:33–43
Boyle KS, Dewan AK, Tricas TC (2013) Fast drum strokes: novel and convergent features of sonic
muscle ultrastructure, innervation, and motor neuron organization in the pyramid butterfl yfi sh
( Hemitaurichthys polylepis ). J Morphol 274:377–394
Braun CB, Coombs S (2010) Vibratory sources as compound stimuli for the octavolateralis systems: dissection of specifi c stimulation channels using multiple behavioral approaches. J Exp
Psychol Anim Behav Process 36:243–257
Acoustic Communication in Butterfl yfi shes…