Morgane Fournier
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Morgane Fournier
@morganefo.bsky.social
PhD student at @unibern.bsky.social . Morphological diversity on European salamanders and newts 🦎 · Caving 🦇🕳️
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Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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🚨 New paper! 🚨
Using #XROMM on 15 #bird species, we show that trachea deforms with neck movements. This reshaping could impact sound frequencies, showing that #biomechanics of the entire vocal system is important to consider when studying birdsong 🐦🎶 #ornithology

Now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!
The avian vocal system: 3D reconstruction reveals upper vocal tract elongation during head motion
Summary: Tracheal elongation in birds was found to vary between species and is not necessarily homogeneous; this significantly influences vocalization, providing new insights into the complexity of av...
journals.biologists.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:16 PM