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Cover: Phyllomedusa frogs are arboreal narrow-branch specialists that use their hands and feet to hold on to narrow substrates. To understand how they do this, Herrel and co-workers studied the locomotion of P. azurea moving on branches of different diameters and orientations (pp. 3599−3605). They show how the frogs change their limb kinematics and body height when moving on different substrates. Moreover, the frogs use a specific grip on each substrate, similar to what has been observed for lizards and primates. Their specialized morphology enables them to move across very narrow branches without losing stability, thus allowing them to exploit unique microhabitats. Photo credit: Anthony Herrel.Close Modal - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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In the field: an interview with Martha Muñoz
Martha Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, investigating the evolutionary biology of anole lizards and lungless salamanders. In our new Conversation, she talks about her fieldwork in Indonesia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and the Appalachian Mountains, including a death-defying dash to the top of a mountain through an approaching hurricane.
Graham Scott in conversation with Big Biology
Graham Scott talks to Big Biology about the oxygen cascade in mice living on mountaintops, extreme environments for such small organisms. In this JEB-sponsored episode, they discuss the concept of symmorphosis and the evolution of the oxygen cascade.
Trap-jaw ants coordinate tendon and exoskeleton for perfect mandible arc
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Trap-jaw ants run the risk of tearing themselves apart when they fire off their mandibles, but Greg Sutton & co have discovered that the ants simultaneously push and pull the mandibles using energy stored in a head tendon and their exoskeleton to drive the jaws in a perfect arc.
Hearing without a tympanic ear
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In their Review, Grace Capshaw, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard and Catherine Carr explore the mechanisms of hearing in extant atympanate vertebrates and the implications for the early evolution of tympanate hearing.
