Divergence of Feeding Behaviors in Wrasses
My paper on coordinated feeding mechanics in Tautoga onitis has now been published in Marine Biology. This paper examines the coordination profile of the tautog, but more importantly, quantitatively compares patterns of jaw, fin, and eye movement of tautog to cheiline wrasses and parrotfishes for the first evolutionary examination of how coordination patterns change with respect to different feeding ecologies. Here is the full citation with a link to the paper:
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
