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Welcome to the Laboratory of Integrative and Comparative Herpetology. Research in our lab seeks to understand how forces such as evolutionary history, the physical environment, and interactions among species affect an animal's morphology, physiology, ecology, behavior, life history, and distribution. In short, we study the "how" and "why" of animal function. We study these relationships primarily in amphibians and reptiles because they are ideal organisms for testing hypotheses that lie at the interface of these subdisciplines of biology. As comparative biologists, we also draw on inferences from multiple species or populations using a combination of laboratory, field, and modeling approaches. Recent work has focused on in invasive species, insular species, species from extreme environments (e.g., deserts, high elevation, caves), and host–microbiome interactions.
