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[[Image:Molly_christmas2008.JPG |thumb|A spoiled domestic dog, ''Canis lupus familiaris'', in Connecticut. Photo by Evan Schultz.]]
 
[[Image:Molly_christmas2008.JPG |thumb|A spoiled domestic dog, ''Canis lupus familiaris'', in Connecticut. Photo by Evan Schultz.]]
 
[[Image:DiegoBuster.jpg |thumb|Large, slimy reptile accompanied by green iguana. Photo by T. Landberg with K. Schwenk's camera]]
 
[[Image:DiegoBuster.jpg |thumb|Large, slimy reptile accompanied by green iguana. Photo by T. Landberg with K. Schwenk's camera]]
[[Image:Kristiina_agalychnis.jpg |thumb|Tropical treefrog, ''Agalychnis'', with hideous parasitic growth. Photo by C. Smith]]
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[[Image:Kristiina_agalychnis.jpg |thumb|Tropical treefrog, ''Agalychnis'', with hideous parasitic growth identified by mycologists as a species of fungus, ''Kristiiina hurme''. Photo by C. Smith]]
 
[[Image:KDWells5_21_04.jpg |thumb|Our fearless leader. Photo by K. Schwenk]]
 
[[Image:KDWells5_21_04.jpg |thumb|Our fearless leader. Photo by K. Schwenk]]
 
[[Image:KDWells5_21_04c.jpg |thumb|Our fearless leader after unfortunate accident with dipnet. Photo by K. Schwenk]]
 
[[Image:KDWells5_21_04c.jpg |thumb|Our fearless leader after unfortunate accident with dipnet. Photo by K. Schwenk]]

Revision as of 20:13, 30 March 2009

The Vertlunch page

This page is for use of participants in EEB 6480 Seminar in Vertebrate Biology a.k.a. the Vert Lunch.

To upload a pdf use this form (note that you will be asked for username and password to access the form)
To add a link to a journal article, review the instructions for hypertext links in Help.
Spotted Salamander Larvae, Ambystoma maculatum. Photo by Tobias Landberg
Cooperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) tongue-flicking. Photo by K. Schwenk and C. Smith.
A helmeted iguana, Corytophanes hernandezii, in Belize. Photo by K. Hurme.
A spoiled domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris, in Connecticut. Photo by Evan Schultz.
Large, slimy reptile accompanied by green iguana. Photo by T. Landberg with K. Schwenk's camera
Tropical treefrog, Agalychnis, with hideous parasitic growth identified by mycologists as a species of fungus, Kristiiina hurme. Photo by C. Smith
Our fearless leader. Photo by K. Schwenk
Our fearless leader after unfortunate accident with dipnet. Photo by K. Schwenk

The Spring 2009 Edition

January 21

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Ron, S.R. 2008. The evolution of female mate choice for complex calls in tungara frogs. Animal Behaviour 76: 1783-1794.

KW says: I think the attached paper would make a good starting point for vert lunch this Friday, since it is a study by a student at Texas that refutes Mike Ryan’s now widely accepted notion of frog calls evolving through sensory exploitation.

January 28
Rick Blob will do an informal presentation of the work he and colleagues have been doing on the amazing waterfall-climbing gobies of Hawaii. Suggested/optional preparatory reading is:

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Blob, R. W., W. C. Bridges, M. B. Ptacek, T. Maie, R. A. Cediel, M. M. Bertolas, M. L. Julius, and H. L. Schoenfuss. 2008. Morphological selection in an extreme flow environment: body shape and waterfall-climbing success in the Hawaiian stream fish Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Integr. Comp. Biol. 48:734-749.


February 6

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Voigt, S., and D. S. Berman. 2007. First well-established track-trackmaker association of Paleozoic tetrapods based on Ichniotherium trackways and diadectid skeletons from the Lower Permian of Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27:553-570.


February 13

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Goldman, K. J. 1997. Regulation of body temperature in the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 167:423-429.


February 20

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Hendry, A.P., T.J Farrugia, M.T. Kinnison. 2008. Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations. Molecular Ecology 17:20-29.


February 27

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Francois Mougeot, Jesuús Martínez-Padilla, Lucy M.I Webster, Jonathan D Blount, Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez and Stuart B Piertney. 2009. Honest sexual signalling mediated by parasite and testosterone effects on oxidative balance. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276: 1093-1100.


March 6

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Thaker, M., Lima S.L., & Hews, D.K. 2009. Alternative antipredator tactics in tree lizard morphs: hormonal and behavioural responses to a predator encounter. Animal Behaviour 77: 395-401.

March 20

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Snowberg, L. K. & C. W. Benkman. 2009. Mate choice based on a key ecological performance trait. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 762-769.

March 27

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Black Bear Behavior 08.pdf

April 3

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