James C. Liao

Red drum lowered oxygen consumption behind mangrove- and oyster-mimicking bluff bodies at flows to 100 cm/s, yet telemetered fish were detected mostly in low-velocity nearshore habitat.

This study quantifies the energetic costs of escape in schooling white mullet during predation and finds escape responses are intrinsic and not socially modulated.

This study shows adult zebrafish use visual cues in turbulent flows but rely on mechanosensory input in uniform flows, demonstrating context-dependent sensory strategies.

This study quantifies how rainbow trout swimming kinematics respond to different vortex street patterns in cylinder arrays, finding increased tail beat amplitude in high TKE conditions.

This study shows that zebrafish lateral line hair cells use anion efflux, not cation influx, for mechanotransduction due to low external cation concentrations.

The paper investigates how neural mechanisms in the lateral line system of cavefish evolve, finding that blind cavefish have lower response thresholds and persistent afferent activity during locomotion due to efferent system regression.

The paper develops a model to show how corollary discharge modulates lateral line sensory feedback in larval zebrafish during swimming, preventing habituation and enhancing sensing.

The paper investigates how efferent neurons modulate lateral line afferent activity during and after zebrafish swimming, showing that inhibitory efferents reduce afferent spiking and that this effect persists beyond the active swimming phase.