La Sierra and the Cologne Zoo team up on conservation breeding programs for endangered Vietnamese tiger geckos. See attached post and this link lasierra.edu/article/la-sie… tiger-gecko-ark-program/ La Sierra University World Association Zoos & Aquariums #oneplanapproach #endangeredspecies #conservationzoo #EAZA2023

right on Eric et al

Our first paper of the year is out in NatureEcoEvo ! we explore the interplay between skull patterning and whole-head integration, employing extensive ontogenies alongside multi-tissue data in lizards and snakes Institute of Biotechnology (BI) HiLIFE_Helsinki University of Helsinki nature.com/articles/s4155…

recent paper spearheaded by Di-Poi Nicolas ‘s lab.

We have some awesome talks lined up for #SSAR2024 June 27-30 at the University of Michigan UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology #Herpetology

Please check out our recent perspective paper, “Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology.” A huge thanks to the 50 scientists who traveled to California to discuss the future of #DevBio and who contributed to this paper! 1/ journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

We are proud to highlight a few of our members who are listed as 2023 AAAS Fellows! Congrats to Paul Trainor, Dr. Tamara Franz-Odendaal, PhD., MSc.🇨🇦🇿🇦, Matthew Welch, and H. Joseph Yost for your extraordinary achievements across disciplines! More info: ow.ly/k4In50RlGMt #Anatomy25 #AAA

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Extremely pleased to share our team’s latest #BirdAgenda work in nature - hawks and other soaring birds use their lungs to enhance their flight muscles: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Fantastic accompanying discussion of our new soaring bird-air sac paper by Bret Tobalske (U of Montana) for nature 🫁🦅 nature.com/articles/d4158…

had a blast! thanks for the invite

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very cool work The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab

very cool

great position and excellent opportunity to hang out with Thom daily and distract him from working 🫡

A new cell culture resource for investigations of reptilian gene function Read this #OpenAccess Techniques & Resources Article by Sukhada Samudra Sukhada Samudra, Douglas Menke Douglas Menke and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

🐍 A. Tzika from the The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab lab in our department joins international team to uncover #reptile colouration #genetics. Discover the surprising twist on MC1R's role in ball #python pattern formation. Read now: doi.org/10.1111/pcmr.1…

#DBfeature “When does human life begin?” teaching human embryology in the context of the American abortion debate “There is no consensus among biologists as to when an independent human life begins” by Scott Gilbert sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very timely pub. Thanks, Scott and Developmental Biology

New preprint alert. Ever wondered why frogs only have upper jaw teeth? We investigate this conundrum and ask if frogs ever form lower jaw tooth rudiments and what the relationship is between tadpole keratodonts (keratin mouthparts) and teeth! 🐸🦷🔥 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…