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Advances in biological structure, function, and physiology using synchrotron X-ray imaging*Mark W Westneat
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Annu Rev Physiol 70:119-42. 2008..Synchrotron X-ray imaging provides an exciting new window into the internal workings of small animals, with future promise to contribute to a range of physiological and biomechanical questions in comparative biology...
Tracheal respiration in insects visualized with synchrotron x-ray imagingMark W Westneat
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Science 299:558-60. 2003..Body movements and hemolymph circulation cannot account for these cycles; therefore, our observations demonstrate a previously unknown mechanism of respiration in insects analogous to the inflation and deflation of vertebrate lungs...- A biomechanical model for analysis of muscle force, power output and lower jaw motion in fishesMark W Westneat
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
J Theor Biol 223:269-81. 2003..A biomechanical model of jaw closing can be used to interpret the mechanics of a wide range of jaw mechanisms and will enable studies of the functional results of developmental and evolutionary changes in skull morphology and physiology... - Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the reef fish family LabridaeMark W Westneat
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605 2496, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 36:370-90. 2005..Functional novelties in the feeding apparatus have allowed labrid fishes to occupy nearly every feeding guild in reef environments, and trophic variation is a central axis of diversification in this family... - Exploring the radiation of a diverse reef fish family: phylogenetics of the damselfishes (Pomacentridae), with new classifications based on molecular analyses of all generaW James Cooper
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 52:1-16. 2009.... 
Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of regulatory gene sequences in the parrotfishesLydia L Smith
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 2496, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 49:136-52. 2008....- Functional morphology of bite mechanics in the great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda)Justin R Grubich
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Zoology (Jena) 111:16-29. 2008..A robust palatine bone embedded with large dagger-like teeth opposes the mandible at the rear of the jaws providing for a scissor-like bite capable of shearing through the flesh and bone of its prey... - Form and function of damselfish skulls: rapid and repeated evolution into a limited number of trophic nichesW James Cooper
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
BMC Evol Biol 9:24. 2009.... - Local phylogenetic divergence and global evolutionary convergence of skull function in reef fishes of the family LabridaeMark W Westneat
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:993-1000. 2005..Divergence of close relatives, convergence among higher clades and several unusual 'breakthroughs' in skull function characterize the evolution of functional complexity in one of the most diverse groups of reef fishes... - Feeding mechanics and bite force modelling of the skull of Dunkleosteus terrelli, an ancient apex predatorPhilip S L Anderson
Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Biol Lett 3:76-9. 2007..This bite force capability is the greatest of all living or fossil fishes and is among the most powerful bites in animals... - Four-bar linkage modelling in teleost pharyngeal jaws: computer simulations of bite kineticsJustin R Grubich
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
J Anat 209:79-92. 2006..Pharyngeal linkage modelling enables quantitative functional morphometry of a key component of the fish feeding system, and the model is now available for ontogenetic and comparative analyses of fishes with pharyngeal linkage mechanisms... - Coordination of feeding, locomotor and visual systems in parrotfishes (Teleostei: Labridae)Aaron N Rice
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Exp Biol 208:3503-18. 2005..Comparison of the coordination of feeding, swimming and sensory systems among fish species can elucidate alternative coordination strategies involved in herbivory in coral reef fishes... - Molecular phylogenetics of the butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae): taxonomy and biogeography of a global coral reef fish familyJennifer L Fessler
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 45:50-68. 2007.... - Pectoral fin coordination and gait transitions in steadily swimming juvenile reef fishesMelina E Hale
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago, 1027 E 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Exp Biol 209:3708-18. 2006..Greater inclusion of early life history stages in the study of fin-based locomotion should significantly enhance and inform the growing body of work on these behaviors... - Comparative and developmental functional morphology of the jaws of living and fossil gars (Actinopterygii: Lepisosteidae)Christian F Kammerer
Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
J Morphol 267:1017-31. 2006..Some fossil gar species are also placed within functional morphospace using this approach... - Diversity of pectoral fin structure and function in fishes with labriform propulsionDean H Thorsen
Department of Zoology, Division of Fishes, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
J Morphol 263:133-50. 2005..Labriform propulsion has apparently evolved independently multiple times in coral reef fishes, providing an excellent system in which to study the evolution of pectoral fin propulsion... - Evolution of behavior and neural control of the fast-start escape responseMelina E Hale
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Evolution 56:993-1007. 2002..By tracing the evolution of motor pattern and kinematics on a phylogeny, it is shown that major changes in the neural circuit of the startle behavior occur at several levels in the phylogeny of vertebrates... - Fluid dynamics of flapping aquatic flight in the bird wrasse: three-dimensional unsteady computations with fin deformationRavi Ramamurti
Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375-5344, USA
J Exp Biol 205:2997-3008. 2002.... - Relationships of the temperate Australasian labrid fish tribe Odacini (Perciformes; Teleostei)Kendall D Clements
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Mol Phylogenet Evol 32:575-87. 2004..Either herbivory evolved twice in the odacines, or herbivory evolved once with two reversions to carnivory. The latter hypothesis appears more likely in the light of odacine feeding biology... - Performance limits of labriform propulsion and correlates with fin shape and motionJeffrey A Walker
Department of Biology, University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland, ME 04103
J Exp Biol 205:177-87. 2002.... - Gene rearrangements and evolution of tRNA pseudogenes in the mitochondrial genome of the parrotfish (Teleostei: Perciformes: Scaridae)Kohji Mabuchi
Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1 15 1 Minamidai, Nakano Ku, Tokyo 164 8639, Japan
J Mol Evol 59:287-97. 2004.... - Phylogenetic relationships, evolution of broodcare behavior, and geographic speciation in the wrasse tribe LabriniReinhold Hanel
Physiologische Chemie I, Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D 97074 Wurzburg, Germany
J Mol Evol 55:776-89. 2002.... - Real-time phase-contrast x-ray imaging: a new technique for the study of animal form and functionJohn J Socha
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
BMC Biol 5:6. 2007..However, because higher quality images require greater x-ray fluxes, there exists an inherent tradeoff between image quality and tissue damage... - Zoology: twice bittenMark W Westneat
Nature 449:33-4. 2007