Kurt Schwenk

Professor

Contact Information

Office: BioPharmacy 600
Voice: (860) 486-0351
Fax: (860) 486-6364
E-mail: kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu

Home page:
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Mailing address:
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
75 N. Eagleville Road, U-3043
Storrs, CT 06269

"Major 'Research Interests""

Cooperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) tongue-flicking. Photo by K. Schwenk and C. Smith.

Phenotypic evolution Evolutionary constraint Evolutionary and functional morphology of vertebrates Evolutionary and functional morphology of feeding in tetrapod vertebrates, especially squamate reptiles Evolutionary and functional morphology of chemoreception in squamate reptiles Evolutionary and functional morphology of the vertebrate tongue

rightlA helmeted iguana, Corytophanes hernandezii, in Belize. Photo by K. Hurme.