Of Mice and Carnivorans
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Disentangle the genetics, biomechanics, & evolution of mammalian skeletal diversity with @Tseng_ZJ, @LHlusko, & @Chris_J_Law!
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A full skeleton of Sinopa major Smithsonian NMNH! This 40ish million year old predator is a hyaenodont, an extinct clade of hypercarnivores before the rise of carnivorans
So great to get the two research groups together! The combination of Of Mice and Carnivorans U.S. National Science Foundation and European Research Council (ERC) Tied2Teeth is a force to be reckoned with!
.UW Biology undergrads Johannah Rickman & Abby Burtner's first (co)first author paper is now published in [email protected]! Here, we (with Tate Linden & Sharlene Santana) examined the shape and structural properties of squirrel humeri & femora. 🧵 1/x doi.org/10.1093/iob/ob…
Come check out my talk on carnivoran skeletal evolution today at 1:45pm room Tikahtnu C during the Evolutionary Biology (Technical Session 14)! #IMC13 @MammalMeetings Of Mice and Carnivorans
Excited to present our initial Of Mice and Carnivorans work at 8 AM(!!) during the 1st session of the 1st day of ICVM! Come check it out! Session 4: The Rise and Reign of Mammals @Tseng_ZJ & Prof. Leslea J. Hlusko #ICVM23 #ICVM2023
Our first Of Mice and Carnivorans manuscript is out as a preprint! Here, we examine the mosaic evolution of the cranial, appendicular, and vertebral skeletal systems in carnivorans. With Prof. Leslea J. Hlusko and @Tseng_ZJ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Excited that our first Of Mice and Carnivorans paper is out in Royal Society Publishing Biology Letters! Here, we test for distinct modes of evolution among the cranial, appendicular and vertebral regions in extant carnivoran skeletons. 1/x 🧵 w/ @Tseng_ZJ & Prof. Leslea J. Hlusko royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Check out our latest Of Mice and Carnivorans preprint investigating the adaptive landscape of skeletal form & function in carnivorans and testing for functional trade-offs/covariation among the skull, appendicular, & axial skeleton. with @Tseng_ZJ & Prof. Leslea J. Hlusko doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…
Proud to announce one of my PhD chapter is out in #OpenAccess in Current Biology with Prof. Valentin Fischer Davide Tamagnini & Margot Michaud 🥳 Interested in evolutionary patterns of cat-like carnivorans? 🦁🔪 Here is a thread 🧵1/X doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…
10 years in the making - my last PhD chapter is finally published! Check out our work investigating the biomechanical and energetic benefits of tool use in sea otters out in Science Magazine! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Our paper "Challenges & advances in measuring phenotypic convergence" is out in Evolution Journal! Led by Dave Grossnickle & Will Brightly, we found 2 major issues w/ current convergence methods & revised the popular C-measures to minimize these issues 🧵 1/n doi.org/10.1093/evolut…
Second Of Mice and Carnivorans PI (after @Tseng_ZJ) to receive the DVM Mentorship Award 😎
The #TeamSquirrel triology is complete! Led by undergrad Abby Burtner, we (with D Grossnickle & Sharlene Santana) tested the selective regimes acting on mammalian limbs to examine the gliding-to-flying hypothesis in the origin of bat flight. 🧵1/n PeerJ Publishing peerj.com/articles/17824/
Our new manuscript on the carnivorans of Madagascar is now published in Royal Society Publishing! With UW Biology's undergrad Tate Linden and RGGS at AMNH's John Flynn, we examined skull evolution and lineage diversification of this endemic clade. 🧵1/x royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…