Assistant Professor at the University of Guam.
Coral reef fish. Functional Morphology. Fish Evolution & Ecology
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Michalis Mihalitsis
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We find that these feeding repertoires are underpinned by 3 main feeding regimes, namely, lateral biting, ventral biting, and brushing. These regimes are functionally linked to the upper jaw tooth morphology of surgeonfishes.
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New paper out with @cichlidnick.bsky.social and Peter C. Wainwright. We show that different habitats impact fish diversification. Habitats with a complex benthos show increased diversification rates across ray-finned fishes.
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Based on upper jaw tooth morphology of 38spp we reconstruct the evolution of these regimes. We uncover a dynamic relationship between lateral and ventral biting, emphasizing a major role for transitions in feeding kinematics in the ecological diversification of this group.
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New paper titled ‘Functional novelties and behavioural flexibility underpin diversification of the surgeonfish feeding mechanism’. 🐟🐠
link: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Here, we used high-speed filming to quantify how surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae) detach filamentous algae. Based on 319 bites from 15 spp we find high diversity in the frequency of different kinematic behaviours.
A new study from @ucdavis.bsky.social researchers shows that fish that adapted to scrape food off hard surfaces evolved faster than those in the open water.
This "innovation" 50 million years ago paved the way for the incredible variety of species on reefs today: www.ucdavis.edu/news/fish-ev...
Michalis Mihalitsis
Michalis Mihalitsis
Michalis Mihalitsis
Michalis Mihalitsis
Michalis Mihalitsis
Michalis Mihalitsis
Michalis Mihalitsis
Michalis Mihalitsis
Michalis Mihalitsis
UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute
Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it’s because about 50 million years ago, some fish figured out how to bite food from hard surfaces. Evolution doesn’t procee...
The study showed that surgeonfish use various combinations of feeding movements and that each species uses a particular pattern more often — the pattern matching one of the three types of bites....
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