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Among amniotes, mammals are distinguished by a suite of unique features in the pharynx. These features are thought to facilitate several novel feeding behaviors, includin [...]
2024-12 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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One of the hallmarks of the emergence of hominins is a transition to bipedalism, but debates continue on the importance of arboreal behaviors including climbing trees for [...]
2024-06 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Ecomorphology, the field that looks at the relationship between the morphological features of an organism and its ecology, is a valuable framework that has been applied t [...]
2023-12 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Fishes exhibit a remarkable diversity of body shape as adults; however, it is unknown whether this diversity is reflected in larval stage morphology. Here we investigate [...]
04 March 2016 |
Integrative Biology; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Biomechanical systems such as feeding or locomotor morphologies are usually composed of a complex network of traits and applying the concepts of modularity and integratio [...]
2023-06 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Changes in development drive evolution to produce exceptionally diverse morphologies, but too often, there is insufficient knowledge about either a system’s evolutionar [...]
2022-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Numerous jawed vertebrate species use suction feeding to capture evasive prey by rapidly expanding the skull and pulling water into the mouth. Many biomechanical mechanis [...]
2022-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Butterfly coloration has motivated the curiosity of research across many biological disciplines. It has especially been relevant in trying to address the basis of phenoty [...]
2022-06 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Powered flight evolved three times independently among tetrapods (Pterosauria, Aves, Chiroptera), each transition involving a distinctive retooling of forelimbs into wing [...]
2021-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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The tongue plays a key motor role in eating, drinking, and speaking. Through dynamic movements and deformations, the tongue manipulates food within the mouth, transports [...]
2021-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Quantitative analyses of hemimandibular kinematics during mastication have not yet received much attention during the past two decades as the technology for measuring the [...]
2021-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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The urostyle, a composite skeletal structure formed at the onset of metamorphosis in frogs, is considered a structural novelty. Despite its evolutionary importance, majo [...]
2021-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Mammals and their closest fossil relatives use their shoulders and forelimbs for many functions, which is reflected by the great range of mammalian forelimb shapes. Littl [...]
2020-12 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Sensory neurons in the skin provide critical input for animal movement and a wide range of behaviors. In this thesis, I analyze the pectoral fin sensory neurons of larval [...]
2020-12 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Animals use appendage-based sensation to modulate behaviors ranging from locomotion and feeding to reproduction and object manipulation. Sensation is fundamental to many [...]
2020-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Fishes have evolved a wide variety of fin and body shapes and inhabit nearly every aquatic habitat on Earth. Understanding associations between fish morphologies and func [...]
2020-06 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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In flies (Diptera), lineage-specific new genes (orphan genes), such as bicoid in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and panish in the midge Chironomus riparius, have b [...]
2019-06 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Swallowing is essential to vertebrate life, yet its biomechanical basis is poorly understood compared to other behaviors such as chewing, suction feeding, reaching, and l [...]
2018-06 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Animals go through significant morphological and physiological change from hatching or birth to adulthood. Despite these transitions, fundamental behaviors such as feedin [...]
2018-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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The recreation of behavior in extinct fossil taxa is a difficult task, and many studies have attempted to analyze the feeding mechanics of early tetrapods on the basis of [...]
2018-08 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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From insect wings to tetrapod limbs, the appendages of animals have diversified with the functional demands associated with different behaviors and the invasion of new ha [...]
2017-12 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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Many researchers have posited that mammalian motor patterns are conserved during mastication (Hiiemae 1978; Bramble and Wake 1985; Weijs 1994). While Weijs (1994) was not [...]
2017-06 |
Integrative Biology |
Dissertation |
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