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Meet Albert Chen!

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Reading list recommendations- the books of IOB author Mark E. Hauber

November 24, 2024 iobopen

Meet IOB author Zander Perelman

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  • abbeydias's avatar abbeydias
    • Masters Of The Deep: The Hadal Snailfishes
  • alvarovcortes's avatar alvarovcortes
    • What happens when sculpins cross the aquatic aisle?
  • amandaehewes's avatar amandaehewes
    • Why don’t penguins need goggles to see when they swim?
  • Amanda Palecek-McClung's avatar Amanda Palecek-McClung
    • Lizard claws: clinging & climbing in the city
    • Slow & steady loses the chase: Young bunnies need speed to survive
    • Snakes vs crayfish: How snakes snack on crunchy crustaceans
    • Big little lizards: How hormones may affect species differently
    • Reaching for the stars: a comprehensive guide for navigating the CT galaxy
  • Armita R. Manafzadeh's avatar Armita R. Manafzadeh
    • HOW CAN WE SEE INSIDE MUSCLES?
    • How do birds jump?
    • How do birds keep their balance?
    • What can the Industrial Revolution teach us about animal motion?
    • Can beards protect against punches?
  • bguell20ee81e05f's avatar bguell20ee81e05f
    • Buzz buzz. Why won’t you just pick up hatch?
  • Dexter Summers's avatar Dexter Summers
    • Ahh, to Walk Like a Salamander
  • Carol Fassbinder-Orth's avatar Carol Fassbinder-Orth
    • Plight of the Bumblebee
  • Conrad Wilson's avatar Conrad Wilson
    • Overcoming Extinction: Model Mollusks Reveal How Coiled Shells Influence Swimming
    • Biting off more than you can chew: tough yet stretchy guts in a fish without a stomach
    • (Con)Fusion of the Jaws: Long-axis Rotation of the Jaws During Feeding in the Bamboo Shark
  • Callie Crawford's avatar Callie Crawford
    • Cat Pig got your tongue?
  • deernisse's avatar deernisse
    • What goes on at night in the sex life of giant siphon limpets?
  • dfkernst's avatar dfkernst
    • What’s in an egg: an immune system is based on mom’s background
  • Danielle Ingle's avatar Danielle Ingle
    • The Epibiont’s Guide to Sea Turtle Hosts: Barnacle Edition
    • Are we there yet?: stress levels of two sea turtle species during transportation to release sites
  • D. Rex Mitchell's avatar D. Rex Mitchell
    • Something to chew on? Tougher diets might be helpful for some captive-reared animals intended for release
  • CMDonatelli's avatar CMDonatelli
    • Lionfish vs. Sharks: The Battle for the Reef
    • It’s all in the fins: Pectoral fin rotation in bonnethead sharks
    • Tight turns by turtles
  • frederike_k's avatar frederike_k
    • How Porcelain Crabs live in a World of Ups and Downs
    • A hungry plant and that fills its “belly”
  • herasj01's avatar herasj01
    • A Bird Box of Microbial Communities: Looking at Shifts in the Cloacal Microbiome
  • iobopen's avatar iobopen
    • Every research experience is a data point- spotlight on IOB co-author, Leah Rubin
    • Natural History- a review of IOB author , Brandon Kilbourne’s poetry
    • Meet Albert Chen!
    • Sssslithering Onward: The Evolution of Snake Venom
    • The Future of Women in Herpetology
  • Jonathan Huie's avatar Jonathan Huie
    • Walk with your tail, not the legs
    • You can’t stop the (heart) beat!
    • How to win a game of tag: lizard edition
  • jpfontenelle's avatar jpfontenelle
    • Blennies…blennies in tubes…boy blennies and girl blennies in tubes.
  • Emily Kane's avatar Emily Kane
    • What do you do if you don’t have fingers? Use your skull!
    • The cost of living—How Striped Skunks balance seasonal activity budgets
    • Mountain passes are higher in the tropics – but maybe not if you can thermoregulate
  • karlycohen7844's avatar karlycohen7844
    • Starvation response induced by hydrodynamic forces
  • kaylachall's avatar kaylachall
    • Running out of breath: locomotion and ventilation in lizards.
  • kdobkowski's avatar kdobkowski
    • A Not So “Boring” Interaction
    • A Not So “Boring” Interaction
    • Starting Strong – Involving Undergraduates in Specimen-Based Research Through a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)
  • Keiffer Williams's avatar Keiffer Williams
    • Locomotion in the Ocean: How does swimming mode affect body shape evolution in marine fishes?
  • Kelsi Rutledge's avatar Kelsi Rutledge
    • Just Around the Bend: A New Open Source Tool for Measuring the 2nd Moment of Area of Complex Shapes
    • XROMM…for dead things!
    • Invasive air-breathing fish crawls across land
    • Shrimpfish swim strangely
  • Kelly Diamond's avatar Kelly Diamond
    • Dishing up core concepts for comparative anatomy curricula
    • Thick fish feed with superior suction
    • Not all flashy snakes thrash dance the same!
    • Egg-laying strategies of avian ancestors
    • Antlion pits take advantage of ant slips
  • kstanchak's avatar kstanchak
    • Lunging for lunch
    • What’s shakin’ inside a quail spine?
  • mkolmann's avatar mkolmann
    • Known unknowns and undescribeds…
    • A tall tail about sharks & ichthyosaurs
    • Feisty feeding for flowers foments fighting: a tale of the hummingbird bill
  • Noah Bressman's avatar Noah Bressman
    • It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s convergent evolution!
    • Extreme blennies are surprisingly ordinary
    • To Not Get Caught by a Predator
    • Catfish’s got no tongue? Well, it doesn’t need it to swallow
    • Oh, Barnacles! The Journey from Free-Swimming to Rock Pimple
  • nycmandy7's avatar nycmandy7
    • English your second language? Journals should help!
  • Abby_VanderLinden's avatar Abby_VanderLinden
    • It’s all in your head: crocodilian head width predicts body size
    • Hold me closer, tiny opossum: limb integration and development in marsupial and placental mammals
  • shirelkr's avatar shirelkr
    • The fast and the furious: more prey and more energy for big, hungry rorquals
    • When cetaceans have a bone to pick…
  • Takashi Maie's avatar Takashi Maie
    • Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) Impact on predator-prey interactions
  • William Ray's avatar William Ray
    • Foraging in the dark–integrating echolocation and smell to find a meal
  • yordanojimenez's avatar yordanojimenez
    • How do animals find their way home?
  • zachcrum's avatar zachcrum
    • Fishy Forensics: Researchers Assess Bite Wounds in Fish Prey

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