Axolotls at different stages of ontogeny before and after Deeplabcut
Axolotls at different stages of ontogeny, including suction feeding underwater, before and after applying Deeplabcut for automated feature tracking.
Form-Function
Project resources related to establishing the patterns of morphological and functional variation among salamander species throughout ontogeny.
Chasing dragons in a laboratory cave
Do you like caving ? In early September, Anthony Herrel and I went to Moulis (Ariège, France) to visit the CNRS laboratory cave part of the SETE, hosted by our collaborator Olivier Guillaume, without whom this would not have been…
Pyrenean newt (Calotriton asper) feeding
A Pyrenean newt (Calotriton asper) feeding feeding above water.
Olm (Proteus anguinus) suction feeding
An olm (Proteus anguinus) suction feeding underwater, recorded using high-speed video.
Lower jaw modularity in the African clawed frog and fire salamander
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.
Phylogeny of the salamanders included in our Form-Function project
The images come from Vitalii Hulai, Joel Sartore, anitasstudio, lifeonwhite, Javier Alonso Huerta, Matthieu Berroneau, underground reptiles.
Filming salamanders at the Amphibian Foundation
Why salamanders are so special? Were you aware that Salamanders present the most important diversity of developmental strategies among vertebrates? Most salamander species have what we call a biphasic life cycle, meaning that, like the frogs, eggs are laid in…
Larval frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) suction feeding
A larval frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) suction feeding underwater, recorded using high-speed video.
Adult axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) suction feeding
An adult axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) suction feeding underwater, recorded using high-speed video.
Adult northern slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) feeding
An adult northern slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) feeding above water, recorded using high-speed video.