Dr. Alice C. Gibb 

Publications

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Listed in reverse chronological order

2024. Big fish can’t jump? Allometry of terrestrial jumping in cyprinodontiform fishes. Minicozzi, M.R., Finden, Al, Dias, R., Phillips, Q., Abelson, C. & Gibb, A.C. Integrative and Comparative Biology. In press.

2023. Ferry, L. A., & Gibb, A. C. One of these is not like the others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(4), Article e2212339119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212339119

2022. Gibb, A.C., Amplo, H., Struble, M.K., & Kawano, S. A step forward: Functional diversity and emerging themes of slow-speed locomotion in vertebrates. Int. Comp. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac139

2022. Struble, M.K. & Gibb, A.C. Do we all walk the walk? A comparison of walking behaviors across tetrapods. Int. Comp. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac125

2022. Tenant, L.A., Ward, D.L, & Gibb, A.C. Comparison of electrofishing and PIT antennas for detection of hatchery-reared Roundtail Chub (Gila robusta) stocked into a desert stream. J. AZ NV Acad. Sci. https://doi.org/10.2181/036.049.0209

2022. Wolters-Ringer, P., Ragowski, D, & Gibb, A.C. Allometric changes and shape comparisons of two Southwestern sucker species and their hybrids using a geometric morphometric approach. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. https://doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10380

2021. Kimball, D.S., Minicozzi, M.R., & Gibb, A.C. The fast and the tendinous? Locomotor modifications of the caudal peduncle in Gila spp. from the American Southwest. Zool. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2021.125924

2020. Minicozzi, M., Kimball, D., Finden, A., Friedman, S., & Gibb, A.C. Are Extreme Anatomical Modifications Required for Fish to Move Effectively on Land? Comparative Anatomy of the Posterior Axial Skeleton in the Cyprinodontiformes. Anat. Rec., 303:53–64, 2020 doi: 10.1002/ar.24117

2020. Moran, C. O'Neill, M., & Gibb, A.C. Integrating Studies of Anatomy, Physiology, and Behavior into Conservation Strategies for the Imperiled Cyprinid Fishes of the Southwestern United States. Int. Comp. Biol. doi: 10.1093/icb/icaa031

2019. Minicozzi, M.R., Perez, J., Kimball, D., & Gibb, A.C. Scale Thickness Predicts Skin Puncture-Force Resistance in Three Pleuronectiform Fishes. Integrative Organismal Biology, 1(1), doi: 10.1093/iob/obz005.

2019. Wolters, P., Rogowski, D., Ward, D., & Gibb, A. Viability of Razorback-Flannelmouth sucker hybrids. Southwestern Naturalist, 63(4), 280-283. doi: 10.1894/0038-4909-63-4-280

2018. Moran, C., Gerry, S., O'Neill, M., Rzucidlo, C., & Gibb, A.C. Behavioral and physiological adaptations to high-flow velocities in Southwestern native chubs (Gila spp.). Journal of Experimental Biology. doi:10.1242/jeb.158972

2018. Fox, C., Gibb, A.C., Summers, A., & Bemis, W. Benthic walking, bounding, and maneuvering in flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae): New vertebrate gaits. Zoology. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2018.07.002

2018. Moran, C., Ward, D., & Gibb, A.C. Key morphological features favor the success of non-native fish species under reduced turbidity conditions in the lower Colorado River Basin, USA. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. doi: 10.1002/tafs.10079

2018. Corn, K., Farina, S., Summers, A., & Gibb, A.C. Effects of organism and substrate size on burial mechanics of English sole, Parophrys vetulus. Journal of Experimental Biology. doi:10.1242/jeb.176131

2018. Bressman, N., Gibb, A.C., & Farina, S. A walking behavior generates effective overland movements in the tidepool sculpin, Oligocottus maculosus. Zoology. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2018.10.003

2017. Moran, C., O'Neill, M., Armbruster, J., & Gibb, A.C. Can members of the Southwestern Gila robusta species complex be distinguished by morphological features? Journal of Fish Biology, doi: 10.1111/jfb.13348.

2016. Moran, C., Ferry, L. & Gibb, A.C. Why does Gila elegans have a bony tail? A study of swimming morphology convergence. Zool. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.002.

2015. Bressman, N., Farina, S. & Gibb, A.C. Look before you leap: Visual navigation and terrestrial locomotion of the intertidal killifish Fundulus heteroclitus. J. Exp. Zool. doi: 10.1002/jez.1996

2015. Michel, K.B., Aerts, P., Gibb, A. C. and Van Wassenbergh, S. Functional morphology and kinematics of terrestrial feeding in the largescale foureyes (Anableps anableps). J. Exp. Biol. 218, 2951-2960. doi: 10.1242/jeb.124644

2015. Gibb, A.C., Staab, K., Moran, C. & Ferry, L.A. The teleost intramandibular joint: A mechanism that allows fish to obtain prey unavailable to suction feeders. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi:10.1093/icb/icv042

2015. Ferry, L.A., Paig-Tran, M. and Gibb, A.C. Suction, ram, and biting: deviations and limitations to aquatic prey capture. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi:10.1093/icb/icv028

2014. Boumis R.J., Ferry L.A., Pace C.M. and Gibb A.C. Heads or Tails: Do Stranded Fish (Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis) Know Where They Are on a Slope and How to Return to the Water? PLoS ONE 9(8): e104569. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104569

2014. Pace, C.M. and Gibb, A.C. Sustained periodic terrestrial locomotion in air-breathing fishes. J. Fish Biol. doi:10.1111/jfb.12318.


2014. O’Neill, M.W. and Gibb, A.C. Does feeding behavior facilitate trophic niche partitioning in two suckers from the American Southwest? Phys. Biochem. Zool. doi: 10.1086/671901

2013. Ashley-Ross, M.A., Perlman, B.M., Gibb, A.C. and Long, J.H. Jr. Jumping sans legs: does elastic energy storage by the vertebral column power terrestrial jumps in bony fishes? Zool. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2013.10.005

2013. Copus, J.M. and Gibb, A.C. A forceful upper jaw facilitates picking-based prey capture: biomechanics of feeding in a butterfly fish Chaetodon trichourus. Zool. 116:336–347. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2013.08.005

2013. Gibb, A.C., Ashley-Ross, M.A., and Hsieh, S.T. Thrash, Flip, or Jump: The Behavioral and Functional Continuum of Terrestrial Locomotion in Teleost Fishes. Int. Comp. Biol. doi: 10.1093/icb/ict052.

2013. Ashley-Ross, M.A., Hsieh, S.T., Gibb, A.C. and Blob, R.W. Vertebrate Land Invasions--Past, Present, and Future: An Introduction to the Symposium. Int. Comp. Biol. doi: 10.1093/icb/ict048.

2013. Burnett, M.F. and Gibb, A.C. Do Changes in Morphology and Prey-Capture Movements Facilitate a Dietary Transition in Juvenile Colorado pikeminnow, Ptychocheilus lucius? Evol. Biol. 40:261-275. doi: 10.1007/s11692-012-9207-2

2012. Ferry, L.A., Konow, N. and Gibb, A.C. Are Kissing Gourami Specialized for Substrate-Feeding? Prey Capture Kinematics of Helostoma temminckii and Other Anabantoid Fishes. J. Exp. Zool. doi: 10.1002/jez.1749

2012. Hunt, T.A., Ward, D.L., Propper, C.R., and Gibb, A.C. Effects of Capture by Trammel Net on Colorado River Native Fishes. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management: 3(1):133-141. doi: 10.3996/122011-JFWM-070

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. doi:10.1002/jez.1000

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. DOI: 10.1002/jez.711

2011. Pace, C. and Gibb, A.C. Locomotor behavior across an environmental transition in the ropefish, Erpetoichthys calabaricus. J. exp. Biol. 214:530-537 doi: 10.1242/jeb.047902

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. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2009.09.001

2009. Pace, C.M. and Gibb, A.C. Mudskipper pectoral fin kinematics in aquatic and terrestrial environments. J. exp. Biol. 212:2279-2286. doi:10.1242/jeb.029041

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. doi: 10.1002/jmor.10711

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. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2007.11.003

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. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2007.12.002

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 doi: 10.1007/s10641-008-9369-z

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 doi: 10.1007/s10641-007-9307-5

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 doi: 10.1002/jez.409

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