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Cover: Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) foraging in the ice-covered waters of Wilhelmina Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. The whale is outfitted with a multi-sensor recording tag to measure underwater movement and behavior. Friedlaender et al. (pp. 2851-2854) find that these whales perform unique feeding dives under sea ice and forage at extraordinarily high rates, greater than any other baleen whale. The minke whale’s unique combination of body size, feeding mechanism and habitat define a previously undocumented ecological niche unique among diving vertebrates. Photo credit: A. Friedlaender, taken under permits NMFS 14097 and ACA 2009-013.Close Modal - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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High fatty acid oxidation capacity and phosphorylation control despite elevated leak and reduced respiratory capacity in northern elephant seal muscle mitochondria
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In the field: an interview with Martha Muñoz
Martha Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, investigating the evolutionary biology of anole lizards and lungless salamanders. In our new Conversation, she talks about her fieldwork in Indonesia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and the Appalachian Mountains, including a death-defying dash to the top of a mountain through an approaching hurricane.
Graham Scott in conversation with Big Biology
Graham Scott talks to Big Biology about the oxygen cascade in mice living on mountaintops, extreme environments for such small organisms. In this JEB-sponsored episode, they discuss the concept of symmorphosis and the evolution of the oxygen cascade.
Trap-jaw ants coordinate tendon and exoskeleton for perfect mandible arc
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Trap-jaw ants run the risk of tearing themselves apart when they fire off their mandibles, but Greg Sutton & co have discovered that the ants simultaneously push and pull the mandibles using energy stored in a head tendon and their exoskeleton to drive the jaws in a perfect arc.
Hearing without a tympanic ear
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In their Review, Grace Capshaw, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard and Catherine Carr explore the mechanisms of hearing in extant atympanate vertebrates and the implications for the early evolution of tympanate hearing.
