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A fast fish swimming protocol that provides similar insights to critical swimming speed.
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- Effects of Test-Section Length and Cross-Sectional Blockage on the Swimming Performance of Juvenile Grass Carp: Implications for Standardized Testing and Fish-Passage Design.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Regular Aerobic Exercise Can Effectively Ameliorate the Skeletal Muscle and Mitochondrial Function Impairments Caused byInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Integrative Assessment of Interrelated Swimming Performances and their Physiological Basis in Large Yellow Croaker (Larimichthys crocea).Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Performance measures are an important tool to assess the impact of environmental change on animals. In fish, performance is often measured as critical swimming speed (Ucrit), which reflects individual maximal physiological capacities. A drawback of Ucrit is that trials are relatively long (∼30-75 min). Ucrit may therefore not be suitable for several repeated measurements because of the potential for training effects, long recovery periods, and low throughput. Here we test a shorter (∼4-5 min) protocol, "Ucrit fast" (UCfast) in zebrafish (Danio rerio). We show that UCfast and Ucrit have similar, significant repeatabilities within individuals. Unlike Ucrit, repeated UCfast trials did not elicit a training effect. Both UCfast and Ucrit provide the same insights into thermal acclimation, and both provide similar estimates of individual acclimation capacity in doubly acclimated fish. We propose that UCfast is a valid substitute for Ucrit particularly when higher throughput and several repeated measures are necessary.
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