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🚨NEW FOSSIL SPECIES 🚨 The first fossil record of an aquatic #caecilian (Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae) by Rodolfo Otávio Santos, Mark Wilkinson, Graziella do Couto Ribeiro, Alberto B Carvalho, Hussam Zaher in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/adv…

How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? 🐸🌡️ In this new preprint @EcoEvoRxiv, we aimed to answer this question at truly global scales 🌍 doi.org/10.32942/X2T02T A thread 🧵(1/27)

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Milk provisioning in oviparous #caecilian amphibians In Science Magazine doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Diversity and Molecular Evolution of Antimicrobial Peptides in #Caecilian Amphibians in Toxins MDPI mdpi.com/2072-6651/16/3…

Rubio et al —> "Under pressure: evidence for selection on color-related genes in #poisonfrogs of the genus Ranitomeya" Kyle Summers @PoisonEcology Evolutionary Ecology rdcu.be/dE1mD

Heat tolerance is plastic in a rainforest anole at both the genetic and phenotypic levels, and this matters when we forecast it's response to climate change. New paper from our work Smithsonian Panama led by Adam Rosso and @coxevolab. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Some exciting news! Happy to announce that I will be pursuing a PhD Ecology & Evolution at Houston with Adam Stuckert @PoisonEcology. Anddd.. my first, first-author paper was accepted for publication! Huge thanks to Rayna Bell for her unwavering support and mentorship. 🐸🤠

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Can caecilians tell the time? Circadian rhythm and surface activity in soil-dwelling #caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) in Scientific Reports By Ram and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4159…

The team took a quick break from field work to present at the #BCI100 symposium! Smithsonian Panama

Presented some ongoing research at the #BCI100 conference today! A culmination of nine months with @gsscholars at Smithsonian Panama. Only one month left to catch 'zards, deploy clay models, and sequence some samples 😢🦎.

How does conspicuous colouration evolve alongside burrowing behaviour? A new #ProcB paper investigates with crayfish: ow.ly/Xceb50SyEJx Dylan Padilla The Crustacean Society

Baby's first Nanopore!!! 🧬 Fingers crossed

Heading to #Evol2024! Come check out my poster. Evolution Meetings

Happy #WorldLizardDay from these lovely 'zards I had the pleasure of seeing and working with in Panamá 🇵🇦💚. Basiliscus basiliscus Anolis biporcatus (eepy) Anolis apletophallus Anolis frenatus

Tune in on August 27 to find out what I was doing in the rainforest for a year! I'm first up but you should stay if you want to learn about corals, bats, and more from my awesome cohort members. 🦎🦇🦋🪸🍄🐠🌴🐜

brat summer is officially over… now I’m gonna be

This work is now peer reviewed and published in Nature Communications! Evidence for ecological tuning of anuran biofluorescent signals rdcu.be/dW3dk Here is a thread covering our main findings:

The significance of biofluorescence across taxonomic groups is understudied. Whitcher et al. document biofluorescence in South American tropical amphibians, suggesting that it may correspond with wavelengths of light at twilight. Courtney Whitcher Florida State University nature.com/articles/s4146…

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