Peer-reviewed articles published by the Meta-Morphosis Project team.
This blog post summarizes our recently published paper in Biology Open, in which we explored how size and developmental stage affected the feeding kinematics of larval, juvenile and adult Ambystoma mexicanum (axolotl). Peadomorphic species: are the adults just big larvae?…
In our latest paper, we explore how variation in metamorphosis — the dramatic body transformation that some animals undergo — plays a major role in shaping lower jaw diversity among salamanders and newts. Metamorphosis is a spectacular developmental process, marked…
From CT scans of 100 lower jaws from African clawed frogs and fire salamanders, we answer the question of whether the amphibian lower jaw evolves as a single unit or evolves with different modules evolving in different ways.
Reconstructing the cranial evolution of the salamander using geometric morphometric data from 148 species, we demonstrate that life cycle influences cranial shape diversity and rate of evolution.
Applying a high-dimensional geometric morphometric approach, we show that size has no significant effect on cranial shape in the Italian fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra giglioli).
