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Functional Morphology search menu search content About Functional Morphology At FunMorph, we investigate how complex organismal systems function and evolve. Our focus is on systems that are integrated (-require the integrated functioning of many bodily parts) and ecologically relevant (-affect the i…

Functional Morphology search menu search content Links - Functional Morphology Links Journals Online Journals through SwetsNet (UA access). Biological Journals and Abbreviations. Journal of experimental Biology. Science. Nature. Springer publications: Experimental Biology Online. Journal of Comparat…

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Functional Morphology search menu search content Events SID-in Leuven 16 - 18 januari 2025: UAntwerpen is van de partij op de SID-in in Vlaams-Brabant Date 16 jan SID-in Gent 23 - 25 januari 2025: UAntwerpen is van de partij op de SID-in in Oost-Vlaanderen Date 23 jan SID-in Kortrijk 30 januari - 1 …

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Functional Morphology search menu search content Publications Datatset : Viviparity is associated with larger female size and higher sexual size dimorphism in a reproductively bimodal lizard Source -, Dryad, 2025, Author(s) Evgeny S. Roitberg, Hans Recknagel, Kathryn R. Elmer, Florentino Brana, Tani…

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Functional Morphology search menu search content Members Spokesperson Raoul Van Damme Member Peter Aerts Tim Andries Eleesha Annear Simon Baeckens Federico Banfi Leonard Dewaele Ioanna Gavriilidi Lukas Hageneder Katleen Huyghe Cas Jorissen Jamie Maclaren Maja Mielke Irene Montañez Rivera Merel Van …

Functional Morphology search menu search content FunMorph Research into the evolution of form and function in animals At FunMorph, we investigate how complex organismal systems function and evolve. Our focus is on systems that are integrated (-require the integrated functioning of many bodily parts)…

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Functional Morphology search menu search content Equipment High-speed videography systems High-speed cameras are used for kinematical analyses. We have two systems with four cameras to record synchronised videos for 3D-motion analyses: Four Fastec IL5-S cameras (pdf - 738kb), each with 8GB of image …

Functional Morphology search menu search content Publications Datatset : Viviparity is associated with larger female size and higher sexual size dimorphism in a reproductively bimodal lizard Source -, Dryad, 2025, Author(s) Evgeny S. Roitberg, Hans Recknagel, Kathryn R. Elmer, Florentino Brana, Tani…

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Functional Morphology search menu search content Research Topics Research at the lab comes mainly in two flavours: one with a more biomechanical, and one with a more ecological taste. Functional morphology and ecological morphology can be considered as consecutive steps in the same integrated evolut…

Functional Morphology search menu search content Research Projects Ongoing projects "The 'land-to-water' transition by herbivorous mammals: exploring locomotor functional morphology and performance. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2027 Abstract Almost all terrestrial mammals have an innate ability to swim, yet o…

Functional Morphology search menu search content Publications 2019 Baeckens, S., De Meester, W., Tadić, Z. & Van Damme, R. (2019) Where to do number two: Lizards prefer to defecate on the largest rock in the territory. Behavioural Processes, 167, 103937. Baeckens, S., Llusia, D., Garcia-Roa, R., Ma…

Functional Morphology search menu search content Osteoderm evolution The genomic and ecological basis of rapid change in a functionally significant trait Project aims Osteoderms are bony elements that are expressed in the skin of a few disparate groups of tetrapods (in crocodiles, turtles, armadillo…

Functional Morphology search menu search content publications 2020 Under construction Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are necessary for the proper functioning of the website and can not be switched off. They are generally defined only as a result of actions you carry out and that…

Functional Morphology search menu search content Island chilling Is selection on wall lizards relaxed on islands? Promoter: Raoul Van Damme Supervisor: Lisa Van Linden Island populations often experience a significant reduction in genetic diversity due to founder effects and inbreeding, resulting in…

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