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'''31 AUGUST'''<br/> | '''31 AUGUST'''<br/> | ||
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− | + | Kurt<br/> | |
+ | A test of tail autotomy in blue-tailed lizards | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/VertLunch8_31.pdf}} | ||
+ | :VertLunch8_31.pdf | ||
+ | [[Image:BlueTailedSkink.jpg|center|frame| A blue-tailed skink—the tail can be voluntarily dropped off, or 'autotomized']] | ||
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'''7 SEPTEMBER'''<br/> | '''7 SEPTEMBER'''<br/> | ||
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− | + | Jessie<br/> | |
− | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/ | + | How to make a sexy snake: estrogen activation of female sex pheromone in male red-sided garter snakes. |
− | [[Image: | + | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/sexy%20snake.pdf}} |
− | <br/><br/><br/> | + | :sexy snake.pdf |
+ | [[Image:Mating_ball.jpg|center|frame| A large female red-sided garter snake is swamped by smaller males upon emerging from hibernation]] | ||
+ | [[Image:sssexy.jpg|center|frame| Warning: do NOT type the phrase "sexy snake" into google image search with your safe search off.]] | ||
+ | ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: <br/>Chemistry getting you down? Read a summary of this article in layman's terms [http://www.reptilechannel.com/reptile-news/2012/02/10/scent-and-mating-of-red-sided-garter-snake.aspx HERE]. <br/> | ||
+ | Get up-close-and-personal with a garter snake mating ball with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSO4ooNN_MY&feature=player_embedded THIS VIDEO]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | <br/><br/> | ||
'''14 SEPTEMBER'''<br/> | '''14 SEPTEMBER'''<br/> | ||
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− | + | Johana<br/> | |
+ | ''Allobates femoralis'' uses both acoustic and visual signals to communicate (i.e., it's not just about croaks) | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/FrogMultimodalComm10.pdf}} | ||
+ | :FrogMultimodalComm10.pdf | ||
+ | [[Image:Allobates_femoralis.jpg|center|frame| ''Allobates femoralis'' is a dendrobatid ('poison dart' frog, not as brightly colored as many others]] | ||
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'''21 SEPTEMBER'''<br/> | '''21 SEPTEMBER'''<br/> | ||
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+ | Jason<br/> | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/Wasko%20%26%20Sasa%202012.pdf}} | ||
+ | :Wasko & Sasa 2012.pdf | ||
+ | [[Image:Bothrops-asper.jpg|center|frame| ''Bothrops asper'', a tropical pitviper]] | ||
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'''28 SEPTEMBER'''<br/> | '''28 SEPTEMBER'''<br/> | ||
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+ | Bill<br/> | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/Winkler%20and%20Van%20Buskirk%202012%20-%20Venue%20influences%20on%20tadpoles.pdf}} | ||
+ | :Winkler and Van Buskirk 2012 - Venue influences on tadpoles.pdf | ||
+ | [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01965.x/suppinfo '''Supporting Information for paper'''] | ||
+ | [[Image:marksaweirdguy.jpg|center|frame| Mark has some weird photos on his website.]] | ||
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'''5 OCTOBER'''<br/> | '''5 OCTOBER'''<br/> | ||
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− | + | Lyndsay | |
+ | <br> | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/GroundSquirrelTailFlagRattlesnake12.pdf}} | ||
+ | :GroundSquirrelTailFlagRattlesnake12.pdf | ||
+ | {|border=1 cellpadding=8 | ||
+ | | [[Image:2GroundSquirrels.jpg|center|frame|Cute little California ground squirrels]] || [[Image:CrotalusInGroundSquirrelHole.jpg|center|frame|Watch out little ground squirrels! There's someone waiting for you at home...]] || | ||
+ | |} | ||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | {|border=1 cellpadding=8 | ||
+ | || [[Image:CrotalusOregEatingGroundSquirrelPup.jpg|center|frame|Sometimes the snakes win...]] || [[Image:GroundSquirrelEatsPituophis.jpg|center|frame|...and sometimes they lose (in this case a ''Pituophis'']] || | ||
+ | |} | ||
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'''12 OCTOBER'''<br/> | '''12 OCTOBER'''<br/> | ||
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+ | Sara<br> | ||
+ | Baby-killing skinks!<br> | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/Maternal%20care%20in%20a%20social%20lizard%20links%20between%20female%20aggression.pdf}} | ||
+ | :Maternal care in a social lizard links between female aggression.pdf | ||
+ | <br/> | ||
+ | {|border=1 cellpadding=8 | ||
+ | | [[Image:EgerniaWhitiiWhitesSkink.jpg|center|frame| White's skink (''Egernia whitii'')]] || [[Image:StopInfanticideOfBabySkinks.jpg|center|frame|]] || | ||
+ | |} | ||
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'''19 OCTOBER'''<br/> | '''19 OCTOBER'''<br/> | ||
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− | + | Sofia<br> | |
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/MammHyenaProblemSolving12.pdf}} | ||
+ | :MammHyenaProblemSolving12.pdf | ||
+ | [[Image:HyenaMouthOpen.jpg|center|frame|]] | ||
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'''26 OCTOBER'''<br/> | '''26 OCTOBER'''<br/> | ||
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+ | diego<br/> | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/dial%26carrier2012.pdf}} | ||
+ | :dial&carrier2012.pdf | ||
+ | http://jeb.biologists.org/content/suppl/2012/10/07/215.21.3703.DC1/Movie3.mov<br/> | ||
+ | "...And I'm free, I'm free fallin'<br/> | ||
+ | Yeah I'm free, free fallin'..."<br/> | ||
+ | -Tom Petty<br/> | ||
+ | [[File:babymallard.jpg]] | ||
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'''2 NOVEMBER'''<br/> | '''2 NOVEMBER'''<br/> | ||
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− | + | Michael | |
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− | + | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/Kratina%20et%20al%202012%20Ecology%20%28Warming%20modifies%20trophic%20cascades%20and%20eutrophication%20in%20experimental%20freshwater%20communities%29.pdf}} | |
+ | :Kratina et al 2012 Ecology (Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities).pdf | ||
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'''9 NOVEMBER'''<br/> | '''9 NOVEMBER'''<br/> | ||
− | + | RETURN OF THE BILL | |
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/Stahlschmidt%20et%20al%202012%20-%20Alternative%20parental%20care%20in%20pythons.pdf}} | ||
+ | :Stahlschmidt et al 2012 - Alternative parental care in pythons.pdf | ||
+ | |||
+ | And yes, that's Rick Shine. | ||
+ | [[File:rickdull.jpg]] | ||
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'''16 NOVEMBER'''<br/> | '''16 NOVEMBER'''<br/> | ||
− | + | Jason | |
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/Ho%20%26%20Burggren%202012.pdf}} | ||
+ | :Ho & Burggren 2012.pdf | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[File:Zebrafish.jpg]] | ||
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'''30 NOVEMBER'''<br/> | '''30 NOVEMBER'''<br/> | ||
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+ | Johana<br/> | ||
+ | Yet another frog:<br/> | ||
+ | ''The 'Push-Up' as a calling posture in'' Nectophrynoides tornieri ''(Anura:Bufonidae) in the Amani Nature Reserve, Tanzania'' | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/FrogPushUp11.pdf}} | ||
+ | :FrogPushUp11.pdf | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[Image:NectophrynoidesTornieri.jpeg|center]] | ||
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'''7 DECEMBER'''<br/> | '''7 DECEMBER'''<br/> | ||
+ | diego<br/> | ||
+ | Let's do plan B; this is hot off the press (or rather, 'before the press'), and caters to most of our vertebrate persuasions. Plus, it features one of our most famous former graduate students. Plus, Bill has graciously agreed to demonstrate what it REALLY means for a tetrapod to have rhythm...<br/> | ||
+ | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/vertlunch/restricted/Rossetal2012%20-%20Tetrapod%20rhythmicity.pdf}} | ||
+ | :Rossetal2012 - Tetrapod rhythmicity.pdf | ||
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Revision as of 02:31, 6 December 2012
Contents
THE VERTLUNCH PAGE—FALL 2012 EDITION
This page is for use by participants in EEB 6480 Seminar in Vertebrate Biology a.k.a. VertLunch.
Faculty Instructors
In alphabetical order:
Eric Schultz (eric.schultz@uconn.edu) - Ichthyology (freshwater and marine bony fish, functional ecology, life history evolution)
Kurt Schwenk (kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu) - Herpetology (lizards/snakes, functional and evolutionary morphology)
Mark Urban (mark.urban@uconn.edu) - Herpetology (salamanders, community and landscape ecology)
Kentwood Wells (kentwood.wells@uconn.edu) - Herpetology (frogs, social behavior, communication)
Who We Are
FORTHCOMING
How to Upload a Paper to This Site
- To upload a pdf use THIS FORM (note that you will be asked for username and password to access the form - contact Schultz, Schwenk or Wells to obtain)
- Once you have used the form to upload a pdf file, it will email you the hypertext to copy and paste below the proper date (while in 'edit' mode). For additional help on doing this, consult the instructions for hypertext links in Help.
Papers to Download for Discussion
31 AUGUST
Kurt
A test of tail autotomy in blue-tailed lizards
7 SEPTEMBER
Jessie
How to make a sexy snake: estrogen activation of female sex pheromone in male red-sided garter snakes.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Chemistry getting you down? Read a summary of this article in layman's terms HERE.
Get up-close-and-personal with a garter snake mating ball with THIS VIDEO.
14 SEPTEMBER
Johana
Allobates femoralis uses both acoustic and visual signals to communicate (i.e., it's not just about croaks)
21 SEPTEMBER
Jason
28 SEPTEMBER
Bill
Supporting Information for paper
5 OCTOBER
Lyndsay
12 OCTOBER
Sara
Baby-killing skinks!
19 OCTOBER
Sofia
26 OCTOBER
diego
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/suppl/2012/10/07/215.21.3703.DC1/Movie3.mov
"...And I'm free, I'm free fallin'
Yeah I'm free, free fallin'..."
-Tom Petty
2 NOVEMBER
Michael
- Kratina et al 2012 Ecology (Warming modifies trophic cascades and eutrophication in experimental freshwater communities).pdf
9 NOVEMBER
RETURN OF THE BILL
16 NOVEMBER
Jason
30 NOVEMBER
Johana
Yet another frog:
The 'Push-Up' as a calling posture in Nectophrynoides tornieri (Anura:Bufonidae) in the Amani Nature Reserve, Tanzania
7 DECEMBER
diego
Let's do plan B; this is hot off the press (or rather, 'before the press'), and caters to most of our vertebrate persuasions. Plus, it features one of our most famous former graduate students. Plus, Bill has graciously agreed to demonstrate what it REALLY means for a tetrapod to have rhythm...