Lab News & Announcements

• October 2021: Espinoza receives Distinguished Young Alumni Award from College of Science, University of Nevada, Reno
  
• August 2021: Juan Aragon Traverso defends MS thesis
  
• August 2021: Espinoza steps down after 20 years as an Associate Editor for Herpetological Review
• July 2021: Undergrads Nicole Bisente and Andrew St. Julian, grad Sean Farmer, and Espinoza presented their research at the Joint Meeting for Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) in Phoenix, AZ

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, and life history. In short, we study the "how" and the "why" of animal function. We study these relationships in amphibians and reptiles because they are ideal organisms for testing hypotheses that lie at the interface of these subdisciplines of biology. ​