![]() ![]() Oberlin dissected both adult and juvenile paddlefish gills exposing the underlying tissue layers that were removed and rinsed before being placed under a microscope. Jimmy Oberlin, a senior from Dubois, Pa., presented “Musculature of the Gill Arch of Paddlefish: A Role in Gill Raker Orientation and Function?” Oberlin investigated the arches of paddlefish to discover if the gill arches-internal components that appear to be unlikely in the assistance in food acquisition-contained skeletal muscle, which would explain how gill rakers and their orientation optimize filter-feeding. A Westminster College biology major was able to present his undergraduate research project at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual conference in Austin, Texas, in January.
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