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Tytell, E. D., Cooper, L., Lin, Y. L. and Reis, P. M. (2023). Regulation of the swimming kinematics of lampreys Petromyzon marinus across changes in viscosity. Journal of Experimental Biology226, jeb245457. doi: 10.1242/jeb.245457. (pdf)

Jimenez, Y. E., Lucas, K. N., Long, J. H., Jr and Tytell, E. D. (2023). Flexibility is a hidden axis of biomechanical diversity in fishes. Journal of Experimental Biology 226, jeb245308. doi: 10.1242/jeb.245308. (pdf)

Hamlet, C. L., Fauci, L. J., Morgan, J. R. and Tytell, E. D. (2023). Proprioceptive feedback amplification restores effective locomotion in a neuromechanical model of lampreys with spinal injuries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2213302120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2213302120. (pdf)

Fath, M. A., Nguyen, S., Donahue, J., McMenamin, S. and Tytell, E. D. (2023). Static Stability and Swim Bladder Volume in the Bluegill Sunfish Lepomis macrochirus. Integrative Organismal Biology 5, obad005. doi: 10.1093/iob/obad005 (pdf).

Mekdara, P. J., Tirmizi, S., Schwalbe, M. A. B. and Tytell, E. D. (2022). Comparison of aminoglycoside antibiotics and cobalt chloride for ablation of the lateral line system in giant danios. Integrative Organismal Biology4, obac012. doi: 10.1093/iob/obac012

Tytell, E. D. and Long, J. H., Jr (2021). Biorobotic insights into neuromechanical coordination of undulatory swimming. Science Robotics 6, eabk0620. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abk0620

Donatelli, C. M., Roberts, A. S., Scott, E., DeSmith, K., Summers, D., Abu-Bader, L., Baxter, D., Standen, E. M., Porter, M. E., Summers, A. P., et al. (2021). Foretelling the flex—vertebral shape predicts behavior and ecology of fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology 61, 414–426. doi: 10.1093/icb/icab110

Mekdara, P. J., Nasimi, F., Schwalbe, M. A. B. and Tytell, E. D. (2021). Tail beat synchronization during schooling requires a functional lateral line system in giant danios, Devario aequipinnatus. Integrative and Comparative Biology 61, 427–441. doi: 10.1093/icb/icab071

Haspel, G., Severi, K. E., Fauci, L. J., Cohen, N., Tytell, E. D. and Morgan, J. R. (2021). Resilience of neural networks for locomotion. The Journal of Physiology 599, 3825–3840. doi: 10.1113/JP279214

Fies, J., Gemmell, B. J., Fogerson, S. M., Costello, J. H., Morgan, J. R., Tytell, E. D. and Colin, S. P. (2021). Swimming kinematics and performance of spinal transected lampreys with different levels of axon regeneration. Journal of Experimental Biology224, jeb242639. doi: 10.1242/jeb.242639

Lucas, K. N., Lauder, G. V. and Tytell, E. D. (2020). Airfoil-like mechanics generate thrust on the anterior body of swimming fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 117, 10585–10592. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1919055117

Schwalbe, M. A. B., Boden, A. L., Wise, T. N. and Tytell, E. D. (2019). Red muscle activity in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus during forward accelerations. Scientific Reports 9, 8088. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-44409-7

Hamlet, C. L., Hoffman, K. A., Tytell, E. D. and Fauci, L. J. (2018). The role of curvature feedback in the energetics and dynamics of lamprey swimming: A closed-loop model. PLoS Comput. Biol. 14, e1006324. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006324

Wise, T. N., Schwalbe, M. A. B. and Tytell, E. D. (2018). Hydrodynamics of linear acceleration in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus. J. Exp. Biol. doi: 10.1242/jeb.190892.

Tytell, E. D., Carr, J. A., Danos, N., Wagenbach, C. O., Sullivan, C. M., Kiemel, T., Cowan, N. J. and Ankarali, M. M. (2018). Body stiffness and damping depend sensitively on the timing of muscle activation in lampreys. Integr. Comp. Biol. online. doi: 10.1093/icb/icy042

Hoover, A. P., Cortez, R., Tytell, E. D. and Fauci, L. J. (2018). Swimming performance, resonance, and shape evolution in heaving flexible panels. J. Fluid Mech. 847, 386–416. doi: 10.1017/jfm.2018.305. (pdf)

Mekdara, P. J., Schwalbe, M. A. B., Coughlin, L. L. and Tytell, E. D. (2018). The effects of lateral line ablation and regeneration in schooling giant danios. J. Exp. Biol. onlinedoi: 10.1242/jeb.175166. (pdf)

Donatelli, C. M., Summers, A. P. and Tytell, E. D. (2017). Long axis twisting during locomotion of elongate fishes. J. Exp. Biol. 220, 3632-3640. doi: 10.1242/jeb.156497(pdf)

Massarelli, N., Yau, A. L., Hoffman, K. A., Kiemel, T. and Tytell, E. D. (2017). Characterization of the Encoding Properties of Intraspinal Mechanosensory Neurons in the Lamprey. J. Comp. Physiol. A 203, 831-841,. doi: 10.1007/s00359-017-1196-2. (pdf)

Tytell, E. D., Leftwich, M. C., Hsu, C.-Y., Griffith, B. E., Cohen, A. H., Smits, A. J., Hamlet, C. and Fauci, L. J. (2016). The role of body stiffness in undulatory swimming: Insights from robotic and computational models. Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 73202. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.073202. (pdf)

Hamlet, C., Fauci, L. J. and Tytell, E. D. (2015). The effect of intrinsic muscular nonlinearities on the energetics of locomotion in a computational model of an anguilliform swimmer. J. Theor. Biol. 385, 119–129. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.08.023. (pdf)

Maia, A., Sheltzer, A. P. and Tytell, E. D. (2015). Streamwise vortices destabilize swimming bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus). J. Exp. Biol. 218, 786–792. doi: 10.1242/jeb.114363 (pdf).

Tytell E.D., Hsu C.-Y., Fauci L.J. (2014). The role of mechanical resonance in the neural control of swimming in fishes. Zoology. 117: 48–56. (pdf)

Miller, L. A., Goldman, D. I., Hedrick, T. L., Tytell, E. D., Wang, Z. J., Yen, J. and Alben, S. (2012). Using Computational and Mechanical Models to Study Animal Locomotion. Integrative and Comparative Biology 52, 553–575. doi: 10.1093/icb/ics115 (pdf).

Leftwich, M. C., Tytell, E. D., Cohen, A. H. and Smits, A. J. (2012). Wake structures behind a swimming robotic lamprey with a passively flexible tail. J. Exp. BIol. 215, 416–425. doi: 10.1242/jeb.061440 (pdf).

Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F., Tytell, E. D. and Lauder, G. V. (2012). Hydrodynamics of the bluegill sunfish C-start escape response: three-dimensional simulations and comparison with experimental data. J. Exp. Biol. 215, 671–684. doi: 10.1242/jeb.063016 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D., Holmes, P. and Cohen, A. H. (2011). Spikes alone do not behavior make: why neuroscience needs biomechanics. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 21, 816–822. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.05.017 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. (2011). Experimental Hydrodynamics. In Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment (ed. Farrell, A. P., pp. 535–546. Elsevier Inc. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-1237-4553-8.00218-5 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D., Hsu, C.-Y., Williams, T. L., Cohen, A. H. and Fauci, L. J. (2010b). Interactions between internal forces, body stiffness, and fluid environment in a neuromechanical model of lamprey swimming. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 19832–19837. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1011564107 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D., Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F., Baker, T. V., Anderson, E. J. and Lauder, G. V. (2010). Disentangling the functional roles of morphology and motion in the swimming of fish. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50, 1140–1154. doi: 10.1093/icb/icq057 (pdf).

Oliphint, P. A., Alieva, N., Foldes, A. E., Tytell, E. D., Lau, B. Y. B., Pariseau, J. S., Cohen, A. H. and Morgan, J. R. (2010). Regenerated synapses in lamprey spinal cord are sparse and small even after functional recovery from injury. J. Comp. Neurol. NA–NA. doi: 10.1002/cne.22368 (pdf).

Previte, J. P., Sheils, N., Hoffman, K. A., Kiemel, T. and Tytell, E. D. (2010). Entrainment ranges of forced phase oscillators. J. Math. Biol. 62, 589–603. doi: 10.1007/s00285-010-0348-6 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D., Standen, E. M. and Lauder, G. V. (2008). Escaping Flatland: three-dimensional kinematics and hydrodynamics of median fins in fishes. J. Exp. BIol. 211, 187–195. doi: 10.1242/jeb.008128 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. and Lauder, G. V. (2008). Hydrodynamics of the escape response in bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus. J. Exp. BIol. 211, 3359–3369. doi: 10.1242/jeb.020917 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. and Cohen, A. H. (2008). Rostral versus caudal differences in mechanical entrainment of the lamprey central pattern generator for locomotion. J. Neurophysiol. 99, 2408–2419. doi: 10.1152/jn.01085.2007 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. (2007). Do trout swim better than eels? Challenges for estimating performance based on the wake of self-propelled bodies. Exp Fluids 43, 701–712. doi: 10.1007/s00348-007-0343-x (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. and Alexander, J. K. (2007). Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus synchronize pectoral fin motion and opercular pumping. J Fish Biology 70, 1268–1279. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01416.x (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. (2006). Median fin function in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus: streamwise vortex structure during steady swimming. J. Exp. BIol. 209, 1516–1534. doi: 10.1242/jeb.02154 (pdf).

Lauder, G. V. and Tytell, E. D. (2005). Hydrodynamics of Undulatory Propulsion. In Fish Biomechanics, pp. 425–468. Elsevier doi: 10.1016/S1546-5098(05)23011-X (pdf).

Lauder, G. V. and Tytell, E. D. (2004). Three Gray classics on the biomechanics of animal movement. J. Exp. Biol. 207, 1597–1599. (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. (2004b). Kinematics and hydrodynamics of linear acceleration in eels, Anguilla rostrata. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271, 2535–2540. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2901 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. (2004a). The hydrodynamics of eel swimming II. Effect of swimming speed. J. Exp. BIol. 207, 3265–3279. doi: 10.1242/jeb.01139 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. and Lauder, G. V. (2004). The hydrodynamics of eel swimming: I. Wake structure. J. Exp. BIol. 207, 1825–1841. (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. and Ellington, C. P. (2003). How to perform measurements in a hovering animal’s wake: physical modelling of the vortex wake of the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 358, 1559–1566. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1355 (pdf).

Tytell, E. D. and Lauder, G. V. (2002). The C-start escape response of Polypterus senegalus: bilateral muscle activity and variation during stage 1 and 2. J. Exp. BIol. 205, 2591–2603. (pdf).