Dr. Alice C. Gibb 

Publications

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Listed in reverse chronological order

  2012. Arena, A., Ferry, L.A. and Gibb, A.C. Prey capture behavior of native vs. nonnative fishes: A case study from the Colorado river drainage basin (USA). J. Exp. Zool. 317A:103–116.

  2011. Gibb, A.C., Ashley-Ross, M.A., Pace, C.M. and Long, J.H. Jr. Fish out of water: terrestrial jumping by fully aquatic fishes. J. Exp. Zool. 315A:649-653.

 2011. Pace, C. and Gibb, A.C. Locomotor behavior across an environmental transition in the ropefish, Erpetoichthys calabaricus. J. exp. Biol. 214:530-537

 2010. Ferry-Graham, L.A., Hernandez, L.P., Gibb, A.C. and Pace, C. Unusual kinematics and jaw morphology associated with piscivory in the poeciliid, Belonesox belizanus. Zoology. 113:140-147.

 2009. Pace, C.M. and Gibb, A.C. Mudskipper pectoral fin kinematics in aquatic and terrestrial environments. J. exp. Biol. 212:2279-2286.

 2009. Hernandez, L.P., Gibb, A.C. and Ferry-Graham, L.A. Trophic apparatus in cyprinodontiform fishes: Functional specializations for picking and scraping behaviors. J. Morph. 270:645-661.

 2008. Ferry-Graham, L.A., Gibb, A.C. & Hernandez, L.P. Premaxillary movements in cyprinodontiform fishes: An unusual protrusion mechanism facilitates “picking” prey capture. Zool. 111:455-466.

 2008. Hernandez, L.P., Ferry-Graham, L.A., & Gibb, A.C. Morphology of a picky eater: A novel mechanism underlying premaxillary protrusion and retraction within cyprinodontiforms. Zool. 111:442-454.

 2008 Gibb, A.C., Ferry Graham, L.A., Hernandez, L.P., Romasco, R., & Blanton, J. Functional significance of intramandibular bending in poeciliid fishes. Env. Biol. Fish. 83:507–519

 2008. Swanson, B.O., Gibb, A.C., Marks, J.C. & Hendrickson, D.A. Variation in foraging behavior facilitates resource partitioning in a polymorphic cichlid, Herichthys minckley. Env. Biol. Fish. 83:147–154

 2007. O'Neill, M.W. & Gibb, A.C. Botulinum toxin injections as a method for chemically denervating skeletal muscle to test functional hypotheses: A pilot study in Lepomis cyanellus. Phys. Biochem. Zool. 80: 241-249

 2007. Gibb, A.C., Liu, C. & Swanson, B.O. Heterochrony and the development of the escape response: prehatching movements in the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. J. Exp. Zool. 307A: 556-567

 2006. Herrel, A. and Gibb, A.C. Ontogeny of performance in vertebrates. Phys. Biochem. Zool. 79:1-6

 2006. Gibb, A.C., Swanson, B.O. Wesp, H.M, Landels, C. and Liu, C. Development of the escape response in teleost fishes: Do ontogenetic changes enable improved performance? Phys. Biochem. Zool. 79:7-19

 2005. Gibb, A.C. and Ferry-Graham, L.A. Cranial movements during suction feeding in teleost fishes: Are they modified to enhance suction production? Zool. 108:141-153

 2005. Swanson, B.O., Gibb, A.C., Marks, J.C. & Hendrickson, D.A. Do movement patterns differ between laboratory and field suction feeding behaviors in a Mexican cichlid? Env. Biol. Fish. 74:201-208

 2004. Swanson, B.O. and Gibb, A.C. Kinematics of aquatic and terrestrial escape responses in mudskippers. J. exp. Biol. 207:4037-4044

 2003. Wesp, H.M. and Gibb, A.C. Do endangered razorback suckers have poor larval escape performance relative to introduced rainbow trout? Trans. Am. Fish.Soc. 132:1166-1178

 2003. Swanson, B.O., Gibb, A.C., Marks, J.C. and Hendrickson, D.A. Trophic polymorphism and behavioral differences decrease intra-specific competition in a cichlid, Herichthys minckleyi. Ecol. 84(6):1441-1446

 2003. Gibb, A.C. Modeling the jaw mechanism of Pleuronichthys verticalis: the morphological basis of asymmetrical jaw movements in a flatfish. J. Morph. 256(1):1-12

 2002. Gibb, A.C. and Dickson, K.A. Functional morphology and biochemical indices of performance: Is there a correlation between metabolic enzyme activity and swimming performance? Int. Comp. Biol. 42(2):199-207

 2001. Ferry-Graham, L.A., and Gibb, A.C. Comparison of fasting and post-feeding metabolic rates in a sedentary shark Cephaloscyllium ventriosum. Copeia. 101:1108-1113

 1999. Gibb, A.C., Dickson, K.A and Lauder, G.V. Tail kinematics of the chub mackerel Scomber japonicus: testing the homocercal tail model of fish propulsion. J. exp. Biol. 202:2433-2447

 1997. Gibb, A.C. Do flatfish feed like other fishes? A comparative study of percomorph prey-capture kinematics. J. exp. Biol.200:2841-2859

 1996. Gibb, A.C. The kinematics of prey capture in Xystreurys liolepis: do all flatfish feed asymmetrically? J. exp. Biol.199:2269-2283

 1995. Gibb, A.C. Kinematics of prey capture in a flatfish, Pleuronichthys verticalis. J. exp. Biol. 198:1173-1183

 1994. Gibb, A.C., Jayne, B.C., and Lauder, G.V. Kinematics of pectoral fin locomotion in the bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus. J. exp. Biol. 189:133-161