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"How Do We Do This at a Distance?!" A Descriptive Study of Remote Undergraduate Research Programs during COVID-19

scientific article published in March 2022

2D or not 2D? Testing the utility of 2D vs 3D landmark data in geometric morphometrics of the sculpin subfamily Oligocottinae (Pisces; Cottoidea).

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

A force–speed trade-off is not absolute

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A new genus and species of clingfish from the Rangitāhua Kermadec Islands of New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)

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A new genus and two new species of miniature clingfishes from temperate southern Australia (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

A soft origin for a forceful bite: motor patterns of the feeding musculature in Atlantic hagfish, Myxine glutinosa.

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

Applying x-ray tomography in the field of vertebrate biology: form, function, and evolution of the skull of caecilians (Lissamphibia: Gymnophiona)

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Aquatic versus terrestrial attachment: Water makes a difference.

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Arrested in Glass: Actin within Sophisticated Architectures of Biosilica in Sponges

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Attachment to challenging substrates--fouling, roughness and limits of adhesion in the northern clingfish (Gobiesox maeandricus).

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Batoid wing skeletal structure: novel morphologies, mechanical implications, and phylogenetic patterns

scientific article published in June 2005

Biomaterials: Properties, variation and evolution.

scientific article published on 4 May 2009

Biomaterials: Sharks shift their spine into high gear.

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Biomaterials: silk-like secretion from tarantula feet.

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Biomechanics: Boxed up and ready to go.

scientific article published in January 2015

Biomechanics: Serpentine steps

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Biomechanics: fast fish

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Bottles as models: predicting the effects of varying swimming speed and morphology on size selectivity and filtering efficiency in fishes

scientific article published in May 2011

Built for speed: strain in the cartilaginous vertebral columns of sharks.

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Caecilian jaw-closing mechanics: integrating two muscle systems.

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Calcite Reinforced Silica–Silica Joints in the Biocomposite Skeleton of Deep‐Sea Glass Sponges - Supporting information

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Calcite reinforced silica-silica joints in the biocomposite skeleton of deep-sea glass sponges

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Comparison of the structure and composition of the branchial filters in suspension feeding elasmobranchs

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Correction: Long-axis twisting during locomotion of elongate fishes.

scientific article published in December 2017

Distribution, composition and functions of gelatinous tissues in deep-sea fishes.

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Effects of organism and substrate size on burial mechanics of English sole, Parophrys vetulus

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

Extreme biomimetics: Preservation of molecular detail in centimeter-scale samples of biological meshes laid down by sponges

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Fish feeding hardly a drag

scientific article published in Nature

Flexural stiffness and composition of the batoid propterygium as predictors of punting ability

scientific article published on June 15, 2012

From smooth to rough, from water to air: the intertidal habitat of Northern clingfish (Gobiesox maeandricus).

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Frontiers in aquatic physiology - grand challenge

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Functional morphology of the feeding apparatus, feeding constraints, and suction performance in the nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum

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Hard prey, soft jaws and the ontogeny of feeding mechanics in the spotted ratfish Hydrolagus colliei.

scientific article published on August 2008

Heterochrony in fringeheads (Neoclinus) and amplification of an extraordinary aggressive display in the Sarcastic Fringehead (Teleostei: Blenniiformes).

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How to best smash a snail: the effect of tooth shape on crushing load

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2014)

Invertebrate biomechanics

scientific article published in May 2017

Is solid always best? Cranial performance in solid and fenestrated caecilian skulls

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Killing them softly: Ontogeny of jaw mechanics and stiffness in mollusk-feeding freshwater stingrays

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Kinematics of aquatic and terrestrial prey capture inTerrapene carolina, with implications for the evolution of feeding in cryptodire turtles

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

Lip service: Histological phenotypes correlate with diet and feeding ecology in herbivorous pacus

scientific article published in 2022

Locomotory transition from water to sand and its effects on undulatory kinematics in sand lances (Ammodytidae).

scientific article published in February 2011

Long-axis twisting during locomotion of elongate fishes.

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Material properties and biochemical composition of mineralized vertebral cartilage in seven elasmobranch species (Chondrichthyes).

scientific article published in August 2006

Mechanical properties of the hyomandibula in four shark species

scientific article published on 5 November 2014

Modelling tooth-prey interactions in sharks: the importance of dynamic testing

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Molecular Phylogenetics of the Clingfishes (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae)—Implications for Classification

Morphology and kinematics of feeding in hagfish: possible functional advantages of jaws

scientific article published in November 2007

Not your father's homodonty-stress, tooth shape, and the functional homodont

scientific article published on 19 July 2020

Ontogenetic scaling of the morphology and biomechanics of the feeding apparatus in the Pacific hagfish Eptatretus stoutii

scientific article published on December 2, 2011

Open data and digital morphology

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2017)

Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker armor—Development, damage, and defense in the intertidal

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Response of the hammerhead shark olfactory epithelium to amino acid stimuli.

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Spatial segregation in eastern North Pacific skate assemblages.

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Spider dragline silk: correlated and mosaic evolution in high-performance biological materials

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Stick tight: suction adhesion on irregular surfaces in the northern clingfish.

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Stress relaxation behavior of tessellated cartilage from the jaws of blue sharks

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Structure and function of the armored keel in piranhas, pacus, and their allies

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Structure and function of the horn shark (Heterodontus francisci) cranium through ontogeny: development of a hard prey specialist

scientific article published in April 2004

Swimming in the Sahara

scientific article published in Nature

Tendon--bridging the gap

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

The contribution of mineral to the material properties of vertebral cartilage from the smooth-hound shark Mustelus californicus.

scientific article published in October 2007

The evolution of cranial design, diet, and feeding mechanisms in batoid fishes

scientific article (publication date: July 2007)

The evolution of underwater flight: The redistribution of pectoral fin rays, in manta rays and their relatives (Myliobatidae)

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

The filter pads and filtration mechanisms of the devil rays: Variation at macro and microscopic scales.

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

The material properties of acellular bone in a teleost fish

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TopoAngler: Interactive Topology-Based Extraction of Fishes

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Very low pressures drive ventilatory flow in chimaeroid fishes

scientific article published on 24 November 2011