Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

 

Dial, T.R. and Lauder, G.V. 2020. Longer development provides first-feeding fish time to escape hydrodynamic constraints. Journal of Morphology 281(8): 956-969. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21224

 

Dial, T.R., Reznick, D.N. and Brainerd, E.L. 2017. Heterochrony in the evolution of offspring size: maturation along a uniform ontogenetic trajectory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 20171319.

 

Dial, T.R., Hernandez, L.P. and Brainerd, E.L. 2017. Morphological and functional maturity of the oral jaw covaries with offspring size in Trinidadian guppies. Scientific Reports 7:5771 1-10 (DIO:10.1038/s41598-017-06414-6).

 

Dial, T.R., Reznick, D.N. and Brainerd, E.L. 2016. Effects of neonatal size on maturity and escape performance in the Trinidadian guppy. Functional Ecology 30:943–952 (DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.12565).

 

Dial, T.R. and Carrier, D.R. 2012. Precocial hindlimbs and altricial forelimbs: the partitioning of ontogenetic strategies in mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 3703-3710 (doi:10.1242/jeb.057380).

 

Dial, T.R., Heers, A.M. and Tobalske, B.W. 2012. Ontogeny of aerodynamics in mallards: comparative performance and developmental implications. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 3693-3702 (doi:10.1242/jeb.062018).

 

Dial, K.P., Randall R.J. and Dial, T.R. 2006. What use is half a wing in the ecology and evolution of birds? BioScience 56: 437-445.

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In prep

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Matthews, D.G., Reznick, D.N. and Relative effects of genetics and plasticity in benthic-limnetic morphological divergences of Trinidadian guppies. (in prep)

 

Book chapters

 

Dial, K.P., Heers, A.M. and Dial, T.R. 2015. Ontogenetic and evolutionary transformations in avian locomotion: the ecological significance of incipient structures. In: K.P. Dial, N.H. Shubin, E.L. Brainerd (eds.), Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.