All Stories

  1. Convergently evolved linear actuators in ballistic tongues

    Article • Current Biology, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  2. Pirates of the Caribbean (and elsewhere): Three-Legged Lizards and the Study of Evolutionary Adaptation

    Article • The American Naturalist, July 2025, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  3. Feats of supercontractile strength: functional convergence of supercontracting muscle properties among hyoid musculature in chameleons

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  4. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species?

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2024, Wiley

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  5. Communication via Biotremors in the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus): Part I- Biotremor Production and Response to Substrate-Borne Vibrations

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, June 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  6. Communication via Biotremors in the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus): Part II—Social Contexts

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, June 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  7. Relationship between gene expression networks and muscle contractile physiology differences in Anolis lizards

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  8. The functional basis for variable antipredatory behavioral strategies in the chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2022, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  9. Clinging to survival: Critically Endangered Chapman's pygmy chameleon Rhampholeon chapmanorum persists in shrinking forest patches

    Article • Oryx, August 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  10. Temperature effects on the jumping performance of house crickets

    Article • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  11. The only complete articulated early Miocene chameleon skull (Rusinga Island, Kenya) suggests an African origin for Madagascar’s endemic chameleons

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  12. The role of hyoid muscles in biotremor production in Chamaeleo calyptratus

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2020, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  13. The need for speed: functional specializations of locomotor and feeding muscles in Anolis lizards

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, December 2019, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  14. Gular pouch diversity in the Chamaeleonidae

    Article • The Anatomical Record, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  15. Observations on Nesting and Clutch Size in Furcifer oustaleti (Oustalet's Chameleon) in South Florida

    Article • Southeastern Naturalist, December 2016, Humboldt Field Research Institute

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  16. Off like a shot: scaling of ballistic tongue projection reveals extremely high performance in small chameleons

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  17. Captive Care, Raising, and Breeding of the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus)

    Article • Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, August 2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  18. The Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratusDuméril and Duméril 1851): A Model for Studying Reptile Body Plan Development and Evolution: Figure 1.

    Article • Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, August 2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  19. Thermal effects on the performance, motor control and muscle dynamics of ballistic feeding in the salamander Eurycea guttolineata

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  20. Comparative feeding kinematics of tropical hylid tadpoles

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, February 2013, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Christopher V Anderson, Verônica Thiemi Tsutae de Sousa

  21. Thermal effects on motor control and in vitro muscle dynamics of the ballistic tongue apparatus in chameleons

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  22. Scaling of the ballistic tongue apparatus in chameleons

    Article • Journal of Morphology, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Christopher V Anderson

  23. Ballistic tongue projection in chameleons maintains high performance at low temperature

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Christopher V Anderson