Vertlunch

The Vertlunch page

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

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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.

The Spring 2009 Edition

January 21

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:

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

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

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

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

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.

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