Cortisol enhances aerobic metabolism and locomotor performance during the transition to land in an amphibious fish

SJ Young, GS Rossi, NJ Bernier, PA Wright - … Biochemistry and Physiology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Amphibious fishes on land encounter higher oxygen (O 2) availability and novel energetic
demands, which impacts metabolism. Previous work on the amphibious mangrove killifish …

Functional and Behavioral Trade-Offs between Terrestrial and Aquatic Locomotion in the Amphibious Fish Kryptolebias marmoratus

EG Axlid, PD Lewis, TJ Carroll… - Integrative and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus) is a phenotypically plastic teleost fish that
can spend considerable time on land and traverse the terrestrial realm through a behavior …

Social experience influences thermal sensitivity: lessons from an amphibious mangrove fish

CA Melanson, SG Lamarre… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Understanding the factors affecting the capacity of ectothermic fishes to cope with warming
temperature is critical given predicted climate change scenarios. We know that a fish's social …

Skin ionocyte density of amphibious killifishes is shaped by phenotypic plasticity and constitutive interspecific differences

L Tunnah, AJ Turko, PA Wright - Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2022 - Springer
When amphibious fishes are on land, gill function is reduced or eliminated and the skin is
hypothesized to act as a surrogate site of ionoregulation. Skin ionocytes are present in many …

Retention of larval skin traits in adult amphibious killifishes: a cross-species investigation

L Tunnah, JM Wilson, PA Wright - Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2022 - Springer
The gills are the primary site of exchange in fishes. However, during early life-stages or in
amphibious fishes, ionoregulation and gas-exchange may be primarily cutaneous. Given the …