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 (lizards and snakes)
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.