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Evolution of fossorial locomotion in the transition from tetrapod to snake-like in lizards.
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- Discrete element models for understanding the biomechanics of fossorial animals.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Coordinating tiny limbs and long bodies: Geometric mechanics of lizard terrestrial swimming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Hidden limbs in the "limbless skink" Brachymeles lukbani: Developmental observations.Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
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- Locomotion and palaeoclimate explain the re-evolution of quadrupedal body form inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Evolution of fossorial locomotion in the transition from tetrapod to snake-like in lizards.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Dramatic evolutionary transitions in morphology are often assumed to be adaptive in a new habitat. However, these assumptions are rarely tested because such tests require intermediate forms, which are often extinct. In vertebrates, the evolution of an elongate, limbless body is generally hypothesized to facilitate locomotion in fossorial and/or cluttered habitats. However, these hypotheses remain untested because few studies examine the locomotion of species ranging in body form from tetrapod to snake-like. Here, we address these functional hypotheses by testing whether trade-offs exist between locomotion in surface, fossorial and cluttered habitats in Australian
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