Burrowing constrains patterns of skull shape evolution in wrasses

KM Evans, O Larouche, JJL West… - Evolution & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of behavioral and ecological specialization can have marked effects on the
tempo and mode of phenotypic evolution. Head‐first burrowing has been shown to exert …

Evolution of fossorial locomotion in the transition from tetrapod to snake-like in lizards

G Morinaga, PJ Bergmann - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …