salamander
- Environmental temperature alters the digestive performance and gut microbiota of a terrestrial amphibian
Summary: The relationship between environmental temperature and digestive performance in red-backed salamanders may be mediated by temperature-induced changes in the abundance of chitin-digesting gut microbiota.
- Movements of vastly different performance have similar underlying muscle physiology
Summary: Contractile properties and temperature effects are similar in tongue muscles from salamander species with different tongue-projection performance and mechanism (muscle power versus elastic recoil).