ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology duri…
ABSTRACTNorth American pond turtles (Emydidae) are renowned for their ability to survive extreme hypoxia and anoxia, which enables several species to overwinter in ice-locked, anoxic freshwater ponds and bogs for months. Centrally important for survivi…
ABSTRACTNorth American pond turtles (Emydidae) are renowned for their ability to survive extreme hypoxia and anoxia, which enables several species to overwinter in ice-locked, anoxic freshwater ponds and bogs for months. Centrally important for survivi…
ABSTRACTForaging insects fly over long distances through complex aerial environments, and many can maintain constant ground speeds in wind, allowing them to gauge flight distance. Although insects encounter winds from all directions in the wild, most l…
ABSTRACTThe early-life environment is known to affect later-life health and disease, which could be mediated by the early-life programming of telomere length, a key hallmark of ageing. According to the fetal programming of telomere biology hypothesis, …
ABSTRACTSkeletal muscle powers animal movement, making it an important determinant of fitness. The classic excitation–contraction coupling, sliding-filament and crossbridge theories are thought to describe the processes of muscle activation and the gen…
ABSTRACTOrganisms are subject to the laws of physics, so comparative biomechanics is a powerful approach for identifying basic principles that apply across taxa of how morphology affects performance of mechanical functions such as locomotion, feeding o…
ABSTRACTOsmoregulatory findings on crabs from high Neotropical latitudes are entirely lacking. Seeking to identify the consequences of evolution at low temperature, we examined hyperosmotic/hypo-osmotic and ionic regulation and gill ion transporter gen…
ABSTRACTGorgonians, including sea fans, are soft corals well known for their elaborate branching structure and how they sway in the ocean. This branching structure can modify environmental flows to be beneficial for feeding in a particular range of vel…