Evolution of Ultrafast Snapping Claws/ Curr. Biol., Dec. 28, 2017 (Vol. 28, Issue 1)

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Does dramatic functional change depend on dramatic morphological change? Kaji et al. used microCT and confocal imaging, high-speed video, and kinematic experiments with select 3D-printed models to reconstruct the evolutionary changes in form and function that yielded spectacular snapping claws from simple pinching claws in two shrimp families.

Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31526-9.

T. Kaji, A. Anker, C.S. Wirkner, and A.R. Palmer (2017). Parallel Saltational Evolution of Ultrafast Movements in Snapping Shrimp Claws. Curr. Biol. 28.

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