Chemical Cues which Include Amino Acids Mediate Species-Specific Feeding Behavior in Invasive Filter-Feeding Bigheaded Carps-Data

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This data was generated from a study in which five experiments were conducted that tested whether and how dissolved chemicals might assist food recognition in two filter-feeding fishes, the silver (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and the bighead carp (H. nobilis). The buccal-pharngeal pumping (BPP), a behavior in which fish pump water into their buccal cavities, was observed in both silver and bighead carps after exposure to a a variety of food filtrates and mixtures. In addition, occlusion experiments to determine if the olfactory sense has a very important, but not exclusive, role in bigheaded carp feeding behaviors were conducted.

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55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.596e3499e4b0d1f9f062c3e9.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XS5T8B

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  • usgs-596e3499e4b0d1f9f062c3e9
  • asain-carp
  • olfaction
  • filter-feeding
  • biota
  • olfactory-stimuli
  • microphagy
  • introduced-species

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