COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO THE PERFORMANCE AND EVOLUTION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE SUCTORIAL DISKS IN FISHES

合作研究：鱼类高性能吸盘性能和进化的综合方法

• 批准号: 1256602
• 负责人: Adam Summers
• 金额: $ 28.38万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256602&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; INTEGRATIVE; APPROACH; PERFORMANCE

This research will combine the skills of a comparative physiologist, an engineer, and a systematist to unravel the performance, design principals, and evolution of the sucker disk that allows some fishes to cling to rocks. These fishes, called clingfish, adhere to fouled, irregular substrates in pounding surf and while launching feeding attacks to pry limpets from the rocks. The work will involve a field component to measure the irregularity of substrates in the field, a pure modeling component that seeks to understand the effects of disk shape and material properties on suction, and a phylogenetic survey component. In the survey the suction abilities of clingfishes from all over the world will be quantified and the relationships among clingfish species will be determined using phylogenetic methods. The shape and underlying structure of the disk will also be investigated. The results of these studies will be deposited in several public databases, including Genbank, Tree of Life, and a custom database for morphological data such as CT scans. Other broader impacts of the grant include the development of biomimetic suction systems that could be used in surgical or robotic settings, development of tools for modeling soft matter interactions, education and outreach at the K12 and undergraduate level, and support of graduate education.

这项研究将结合比较生理学家、工程师和系统学家的技能，揭示吸盘盘的性能、设计原理和进化，吸盘盘允许一些鱼类附着在岩石上。 这些被称为“粘鱼”的鱼在海浪的冲击下粘附在污浊的、不规则的基质上，同时发起摄食攻击以从岩石中撬出帽贝。 这项工作将涉及一个现场组件，用于测量现场基质的不规则性，一个纯建模组件，旨在了解盘形状和材料特性对吸力的影响，以及一个系统发育调查组件。 在调查中，将对世界各地的粘鱼的吸力能力进行量化，并使用系统发育方法确定粘鱼物种之间的关系。 圆盘的形状和底层结构也将被研究。 这些研究的结果将存放在多个公共数据库中，包括 Genbank、生命之树以及 CT 扫描等形态学数据的定制数据库。 该赠款的其他更广泛的影响包括开发可用于手术或机器人环境的仿生抽吸系统、开发用于模拟软物质相互作用的工具、K12和本科生的教育和推广，以及支持研究生教育。