Context-dependency of locomotor function, performance, and behavior
Projects:
How do energetic costs (i.e., metabolic rates) vary with microhabitat use in closely-related lungless salamanders?
How does mudskipper crutching change on granular and inclined media, and how does this fin-driven behavior fit into the limb-centric paradigm of "walking"?
How is performance impacted by perturbations and variation in substrate properties, and does it predict habitat use in lizards?
What is the functional relationship between adjacent attachment systems in geckos?
How do energetic costs (i.e., metabolic rates) vary with microhabitat use in closely-related lungless salamanders?
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How does mudskipper crutching change on granular and inclined media, and how does this fin-driven behavior fit into the limb-centric paradigm of "walking"?
- E.R. Naylor and S.M. Kawano. 2022. Mudskippers modulate their locomotor kinematics when moving on deformable and inclined substrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 62(5), 335–1356. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac084
How is performance impacted by perturbations and variation in substrate properties, and does it predict habitat use in lizards?
- E.R. Naylor and T.E. Higham. 2022. High‐speed terrestrial substrate transitions: How a fleeing cursorial day gecko copes with compliance changes that are experienced in nature. Functional Ecology, 36(2), 471-484. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13969
- A.N. Wright, S.R. Kennedy-Gold, E.R. Naylor, R.M. Screen, C. Piantoni, and T.E. Higham. 2021. Clinging performance on natural substrates predicts habitat use in anoles and geckos. Functional Ecology, 35(11), 2472-2482. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13919
What is the functional relationship between adjacent attachment systems in geckos?
- E.R. Naylor and T.E. Higham. 2019. Attachment beyond the adhesive system: the contribution of claws in gecko clinging and locomotion. Integrative & Comparative Biology, 59(1): 168-181. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz027
Comparative locomotor morphology & biomechanics
Projects:
Is diversity in toe morphology predicted by microhabitat use across the gecko phylogeny?
How does the morphology and function of gecko toe pads and tail pads compare?
How do jumping and landing styles compare across phylogenetically and ecologically distinct frogs?
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Paleontology
I also previously worked on the Rukwa Rift Basin Project team (2011-2015) and Mahajanga Basin Project team (2015)
I also previously worked on the Rukwa Rift Basin Project team (2011-2015) and Mahajanga Basin Project team (2015)
- J. Müller, E. Roberts, E.R. Naylor, and N. Stevens. 2018. A fossil gekkotan (Squamata) from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. Journal of Herpetology, 52(2): 223-227.
- E.R. Naylor. 2013. Phylogenetic and functional cues in micromammal tarsal bones from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of southwestern Tanzania. (Senior Thesis). Ohio University, Athens.