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04/16/2021: New paper on the influence of dynamics and substrate in egg puncture published by undergrad Daniel Clark in collaboration with the Hauber Lab at Illinois.

04/08/2021: Press release for a new study by undergrad Daniel Clark on egg puncture in nests. The full paper will be published in JEB.

01/22/2021: Post-doc opportunity in the Anderson lab! Come work on biological puncture with the group. Details on the front page.

01/03/2021: Check out undergraduate lab member Daniel Clark’s talk entitled: Nest substrate and tool shape significantly affect mechanics and energy requirements of avian eggshell puncture , currently available at the SICB 2021 digital meeting until Feb. 28.

Clark, D. L., Hauber, M. E. and Anderson, P. S. L. 2021. Nest substrate and tool shape significantly affects the mechanics and energy requirements of avian eggshell puncture. Journal of Experimental Biology, 224 (8), jeb238832. Link

Crofts, S. B., Smith, S. M. and Anderson, P. S. L., 2020. Beyond description: The Many Facets of Dental Biomechanics. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(3), 594-607. Link

Anderson, P. S. L., Rivera, M. D. and Suarez, A. V., 2020. “Simple” Biomechanical Model for Ants Reveals How Correlated Evolution among Body Segments Minimizes Variation in Center of Mass as Heads get Larger. Integrative and Comparative Biology Online.

Anderson, P. S. L., Crofts, S. B., Kim, J.-T. and Chamorro, L. P., 2019. Taking a Stab at Quantifying the Energetics of Biological Puncture. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59(6), 1586-1596. Link

Crofts, S. B., Lai, Y., Hu, Y. and Anderson, P. S. L., 2019. How do morphological sharpness measures relate to puncture performance in viperid snake fangs? Biology Letters 15: 20180905. Link