@article{Relationships:1593,
      recid = {1593},
      author = {Katz, Hilary Rose},
      title = {Exploring Ontogenetic Relationships Between Form and  Function},
      publisher = {The University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2018-08},
      pages = {114},
      abstract = {Animals go through significant morphological and  physiological change from hatching or birth to adulthood.  Despite these transitions, fundamental behaviors such as  feeding and locomotion must persist, but their performance  may necessitate alternative strategies and structures.  Relationships between anatomical structure and behavioral  modality have been examined widely across species at the  adult life stage, but less attention has been given to how  these relationships change through life history. Examining  relationships between structure and behavior across life  history can provide insight into the evolution of behaviors  as well as the functional plasticity that structures may  exhibit. In this thesis, I utilize the Mauthner-based  startle response in teleost fish and frogs as a model  system for examining changes in morphology and behavior  through life history. In fish, which have a  well-characterized startle, I examine body shape and  aspects of neural architecture and relate them back to what  we already know about the behavior. In my second chapter I  identify an ontogenetic change in body shape that is  prevalent across ray-finned fish. In my third chapter, I  characterize rostrocaudal regionalization within the larval  mechanosensory cell population in zebrafish. Frogs do not  have a well-characterized startle repertoire through  metamorphosis, so in my fourth chapter I describe how a  species of pipid frogs maintains a startle response as it  transitions from axial- to limb-based locomotion. In my  fifth chapter I discuss the teleost fish and frog systems,  and propose experiments that could more directly examine  the structure-function relationships that my findings  indicate are changing through ontogeny.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1593},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1593},
}