Institute of Zoology, University of Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Bonn, Germany.
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2024 Mar;210(2):211-226. doi: 10.1007/s00359-023-01681-3. Epub 2023 Nov 21.
This paper is not meant to be a review article. Instead, it gives an overview of the major research projects that the author, together with his students, colleagues and collaborators, has worked on. Although the main focus of the author's work has always been the fish lateral line, this paper is mainly about all the other research projects he did or that were done in his laboratory. These include studies on fishing spiders, weakly electric fish, seals, water rats, bottom dwelling sharks, freshwater rays, venomous snakes, birds of prey, fire loving beetles and backswimmers. The reasons for this diversity of research projects? Simple. The authors's lifelong enthusiasm for animals, and nature's ingenuity in inventing new biological solutions. Indeed, this most certainly was a principal reason why Karl von Frisch and Alfred Kühn founded the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie (now Journal of Comparative Physiology A) 100 years ago.
本文无意写成一篇综述文章。相反,它概述了作者与其学生、同事和合作者一起开展的主要研究项目。尽管作者工作的主要重点一直是鱼类侧线,但本文主要介绍的是他所做的或在他的实验室中进行的所有其他研究项目。这些项目包括对钓鱼蜘蛛、电鳗、海豹、水鼠、底栖鲨鱼、淡水鳐鱼、毒蛇、猛禽、嗜热甲虫和仰泳蝽的研究。这种研究项目多样性的原因是什么?很简单。作者毕生对动物的热爱,以及大自然在发明新的生物解决方案方面的创造力。事实上,这肯定是卡尔·冯·弗里希(Karl von Frisch)和阿尔弗雷德·库恩(Alfred Kühn) 100 年前创立《比较生理学杂志》(Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie)的主要原因之一。