Selected Recent Publications
(graduate student authors, undergraduate student authors)
Perlman, BM and MA Ashley-Ross. 2016. By land or by sea: a modified C-start motor pattern drives the terrestrial tail-flip. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219: 1860-1865. DOI:10.1242/jeb.128744
Burnette, MF and MA Ashley-Ross. 2015. One shot, one kill: the forces delivered by archer fish shots to distant targets. Zoology, 118(5): 302-311. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2015.04.001
Ashley-Ross, MA, Perlman, BM, Gibb, AC and JH Long, Jr. 2014. Jumping sans legs: does elastic energy storage by the vertebral column power terrestrial jumps in bony fishes? Zoology, 117: 7-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2013.10.005
Gibb, AC, Ashley-Ross, MA and ST Hsieh. 2013. Thrash, flip or jump: the behavioral and functional continuum of terrestrial locomotion in teleost fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53(2): 295-306. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict052
Pronko, AJ, Perlman, BM and MA Ashley-Ross. 2013. Launches, squiggles and pounces, oh my! The water-land transition in mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus). Journal of Experimental Biology, 216: 3988-3995. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.089961
R Diogo, M Linde-Medina, V Abdala, and MA Ashley-Ross. 2013. New, puzzling insights from comparative myological studies on the old and unsolved forelimb/hindlimb enigma. Biological Reviews, 88:196-214. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00247.x
BA Chadwell and MA Ashley-Ross. 2012. Musculoskeletal morphology and regionalization within the dorsal and anal fins of bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus). Journal of Morphology, 273:405-422. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.11031.
BA Chadwell, EM Standen, GV Lauder, and MA Ashley-Ross. 2012. Median fin function during the escape response of bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus). I: Fin-ray orientation and movement. Journal of Experimental Biology, 215:2869-2880.
BA Chadwell, EM Standen, GV Lauder, and MA Ashley-Ross. 2012. Median fin function during the escape response of bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus). II: Fin-ray curvature. Journal of Experimental Biology, 215: 2881-2890.
AC Gibb, MA Ashley-Ross, CM Pace, and JH Long, Jr. 2011. Fish out of water: Terrestrial jumping by fully-aquatic fishes. Journal of Experimental Zoology A, 315A:649-653. DOI: 10.1002/jez.711.
MA Ashley-Ross, R Lundin, and KL Johnson. 2009. Kinematics of level terrestrial and underwater walking in the California newt, Taricha torosa. Journal of Experimental Zoology A, 311A:240-257.