Check out how far back the tongue tip (gold sphere) reaches during swallowing in cane toads! What does this mean for our understanding of frog feeding? Read more about this cool behavior here: https://t.co/nLKrKK0J8D
Beyond the party horn tongue 🥳🐸 @rmkeeffe and team x-rayed cane toads' feeding behavior to document the complex pulley system of cartilage and muscle that travels so far down their throat, it butts up against their heart.
Story:
https://t.co/kTf7fh1lA9
I'm excited to share our recent publication in @iobjournal on feeding mechanics in toads! Think you know frog tongues? There is a lot more to them than meets the eye!
The Mayerl lab at @NAU is hiring! We're looking to recruit a graduate student and postdoc interested in #Physiology , #feeding , and #biomechanics. Check out the lab website or message for more https://t.co/ZGIGEWoeVB
@CollinVanBuren Wow you looked at so many taxa! Interesting that syncervicals occur in fossorial mammals and reptiles but not in forward-burrowing frogs (to my knowledge). Although, frogs don't have that many vertebrae to spare!
New paper on the function of bone fusion in the frog forelimb (authored by myself and @davidcblackburn) is now open access in the Journal of Anatomy! Frog arms still have a lot to teach us about frog evolution, come check it out! https://t.co/wuAHwHqwwz
@jmhuiee @davidcblackburn Can't thank you enough for developing SegmentGeometry, @jmhuiee! It was exactly what we needed to round out our FEA paper. Excited to keep using it in future projects!
A new study by @rmkeeffe + @davidcblackburn indicates the way frogs mate and fight may hold a missing clue to their mysterious skeletal evolution.
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https://t.co/1ezULmBx29
I am pleased to announce that I passed my PhD defense yesterday! Starting this fall I will be joining @sexinnature at Mount Holyoke College as a postdoc--I am so excited to work with Patty on her project investigating genital coevolution in snakes!
We know the frog tongue is great at stretching out to catch food, but what happens after the mouth is closed? Come check out my #SICB+ talk to find out! Exciting XROMM animations and videos abound, and transcripts are included! #SICB2022
@jaimiAgray Thanks Jaimi! And if folks are interested in cool frog morphology they should definitely also check out @jaimiAgray's excellent endocast talk! #SICB2022