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Olfactory Imprinting and Homing in Salmon

Investigations into the Mechanism of the Imprinting Process

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  • © 1983

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Authors:
  1. Arthur D. Hasler

    1. Center for Limnologie, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

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  2. Allan T. Scholz

    1. Department of Biology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, USA

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Part of the book series: Zoophysiology (ZOOPHYSIOLOGY, volume 14)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Olfactory Imprinting and Homing in Salmon

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Notes on the Life History of Coho Salmon

      • Arthur D. Hasler, Allan T. Scholz
      Pages 3-12

    3. Imprinting to Olfactory Cues: The Basis for Home-Stream Selection by Salmon

      • Arthur D. Hasler, Allan T. Scholz
      Pages 13-40

  3. Hormonal Regulation of Smolt Transformation and Olfactory Imprinting in Salmon

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Factors Influencing Smolt Transformation: Effects of Seasonal Fluctuations in Hormone Levels on Transitions in Morphology, Physiology, and Behavior

      • Arthur D. Hasler, Allan T. Scholz
      Pages 43-63

    3. Fluctuations in Hormone Levels During the Spawning Migration: Effects on Olfactory Sensitivity to Imprinted Odors

      • Arthur D. Hasler, Allan T. Scholz
      Pages 64-76

    4. Thyroid Activation of Olfactory Imprinting in Coho Salmon

      • Arthur D. Hasler, Allan T. Scholz
      Pages 77-102

    5. Endogenous and Environmental Control of Smolt Transformation

      • Arthur D. Hasler, Allan T. Scholz
      Pages 103-110

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 111-136
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Chance Favors Only the Prepared Mind How does a scientist go about the task of pushing back the curtains of the unknown? Certainly the romance of tackling the mysteries of nature provides the motivation, for who would not be inspired by the remarkable life history of this romantic beast, the salmon. After living in the Pacific Ocean for several years, salmon swim thousands of kilometers back to the stream of their birth to spawn. I have always been fascinated by the homing migration of salmon. Noone who has seen a 20-kilogram salmon fling itself into the air repeatedly until it is exhausted in a vain effort to surmount a waterfall can fail to marvel at the strength of the instinct that draws the salmon upriver to the stream where it was born. But how does it find its way back? I was puzzling over this problem during a family vacation in 1946. Inspired by the work of the great German Nobel Laureates, Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz, I had been conducting research with my graduate student Theodore Walker, since 1945, on the ability of fishes to discriminate odors emanating from aquatic plants. Von Frisch had studied schooling minnows and discovered that, if broken, their skin emitted a con specific chemical substance, termed Schreckstoff, which caused other members of its school to disperse and hide.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Limnologie, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

    Arthur D. Hasler

  • Department of Biology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, USA

    Allan T. Scholz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Olfactory Imprinting and Homing in Salmon

  • Book Subtitle: Investigations into the Mechanism of the Imprinting Process

  • Authors: Arthur D. Hasler, Allan T. Scholz

  • Series Title: Zoophysiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82070-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-82072-4Published: 08 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-82070-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0720-1842

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 138

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Zoology, Ecology

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