Dan Paluh
@danpaluh.bsky.social
Assistant professor at University of Dayton. Evolution, Anatomy, Development, Natural History, Amphibians & Reptiles | https://www.paluhlab.com/
1/12 🚨🚨 I am so excited to share chapter 1 of my dissertation, now preprinted here: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We ask if are their fundamental, shared mechanisms that stop us from inferring the relationship of species and their timescale of divergence #biology #science
#JMIH26 is just a little over a week away. If you're attending, be sure to check out the symposium @danpaluh.bsky.social and I organized celebrating the career and legacy of Aaron Bauer! It will be filled with amazing talks about geckos, snakes, skinks, and more!
New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX
I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.
Should we look to contemporary climate to explain where species diversity is highest, or look deeper into the past? Jongsma et al. (2026) tackled this question in this week's #AWNews on AmphibiaWeb.org @davidblackburn.bsky.social
DeMarchi et al (2025) explore why some amphibians are better reservoirs for the deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Bd) than others. See what they found at AmphibiaWeb.org #AWNews
Super proud of @stancaf.bsky.social and @shubhamsoni.bsky.social for having led this important Natural History study. Surely you have heard about arboreal 🐍, but did you ever imagine them to dive to hunt for tadpoles in treeholes?! You're welcome! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @klivvvienna.bsky.social
Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8
Gillard and Rowley (2025) analyzed data from FrogID's citizen science project to investigate biodiversity sampling on private lands relative to public lands. See a summary of their findings at AmphibiaWeb.org for this week's #AWNews.
Do tadpoles have acoustic communication? Protázio et al. (2025) documented Ceratophrys joazeirensis (Caatinga Horned Frog) tadpoles producing a short, metallic click sound. See what their hypotheses are for this observation at AmphbiaWeb.org #AWNews
Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) spotted in Arizona
An alternative patterning mechanism for vertebrate tooth complexity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.12.711251v1
I’m so excited to announce our new paper in @journal-evo.bsky.social showing how embryology can help us determine ancestral character states in temporal niche academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... Collab w/ A Bauer, A Wegerski, @tonygamble.bsky.social, & A Rasys #GeckoEvoDevo #Aristelliger 1/x
Out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social: The distinct synsacrum of knob-tailed geckos (Gekkota: Carphodactylidae: Nephrurus) doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
Granados-Martinez et al. (2025) ran behavioral field experiments to test whether male Strawberry Poison Frogs (Oophaga pumilio) rely on vision for navigation in tropical forests and open areas. Read a summary of their results at AmphibiaWeb.org #AWNews
Spring has officially arrived. Pair of wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) in amplexus.
Grow a thick skin frog! VanBuren et al. (2025) examined three frog species from the northern United States and found that skin layers were not consistent over the time. Read the details at AmphibiaWeb.org #AWNews
Our paper on convergent regressive evolution of genes involved in oral anatomy of myrmecophagous mammals is now officially published @molbioevol.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009
Pseudogenes document protracted parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals
Abstract. Adaptation to ant and/or termite consumption (myrmecophagy) in mammals constitutes a textbook example of convergent evolution, being independentl
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Frederic Delsuc@freddelsuc.bsky.social · last yr.New @erc.europa.eu funded #ConvergeAnt preprint on using the evolution of pseudogenes to document the parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals posted at @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The recent description of the 9,000th amphibian species marks a remarkable milestone for biodiversity science and a testament to decades of careful fieldwork, taxonomy, and collaboration across the globe. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org #AWNews
New paper led by my former student Cinnamon Mittan... find out what those cane toads have been doing once they got established down there in Florida... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Complex range expansion and selective regime in the introduced Florida cane toad - Heredity
Heredity - Complex range expansion and selective regime in the introduced Florida cane toad
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Navarrete et al. (2025) provides evidence that Caecilians aren't totally blind. Go to AmphibiaWeb.org to read more of this #AWNews.
Ridges under the skin - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rete ridges form via evolutionarily distinct mechanisms in mammalian skin - Nature
A spatial and single-cell transcriptomics study across multiple mammalian species identifies epidermal BMP signalling as a functional requirement for rete ridge formation, providing insight into ...
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How are ballistic tongues in plethodonts and chameleons similar and different? Zeng et al. (2025) explore this in this week's #AWNews. Visit AmphibiaWeb.org to read more.
Limnonectes palavanensis group exhibit one of the most advanced brood care behaviors. Recently, Dehling et al (2025) showed that there is an unexpectedly high diversity within this clade. Read more of this #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org
#DBfeature 🐠 Pax9 has a broader role in initiating development of mesenchymal structures around the mouth during zebrafish development By Sandhya Paudel, Sarah McLeod, Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske tinyurl.com/yc3jfpux
Atelopus ignescens (the jambato) is a sentinel for environmental health. Please help us protect it from construction that doesn't follow local environmental regulations givebutter.com/XNVdrL If you are a geologist/engineer who could help advise on alts to dynamite for road construction pls DM me.
Help Save the Jambato: Ecuador’s Last Population Is at Risk
By ALIANZA JAMBATO
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NEWS from Ohio State Fish Division: You can now search our 6,000-tissue collection on our website! 🐟 mbd.osu.edu/collections/...
Fish Division | Museum of Biological Diversity
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The metamorphic transition of the frog mouth: from tadpole keratinized mouthparts to adult teeth: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @garethjfraser.bsky.social @danpaluh.bsky.social #evolution
