The Nishikawa Lab

Publications

(in ascending chronological order)

Publications

Jaeger, R.G., K.C.B. Nishikawa & D.B. Barnard. 1983. Foraging tactics of a terrestrial salamander: costs of territorial defence. Animal Behaviour 31:191-198. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1985. Competition and the evolution of aggressive behavior in two species of terrestrial salamanders. Evolution 39:1282-1294. full text (PDF)
Hairston, N.G., K.C. Nishikawa & S.L. Stenhouse. 1987. The evolution of competing species of terrestrial salamanders: niche partitioning or interference? Evolutionary Ecology 1:247-262. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1987a. Interspecific aggressive behavior in salamanders: species-specific interference or misidentification? Animal Behaviour 35:263-270. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1987b. Staining amphibian peripheral nerves with Sudan black B: progressive vs. regressive methods. Copeia 1987:489-491. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. & P.M. Service. 1988. A fluorescent marking technique for terrestrial salamanders. Journal of Herpetology 22:349-351. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K. & R. Wassersug. 1988. Morphology of the caudal spinal cord in Rana (Ranidae) and Xenopus (Pipidae) tadpoles. Journal of Comparative Neurology 269:193-202. full text (PDF)
Roth, G., K. Nishikawa, U. Dicke & D.B. Wake. 1988a. Funktionsmorphologie und neuronale Kontrolle des Beutefangs bei Salamandern und Froschen: Gemeinsamkeiten und Alternativen. Verhandlungen der deutschen zoologischen Gesellschaft 81:59-75.
Roth, G., K. Nishikawa, U. Dicke & D.B. Wake. 1988b. Topography and cytoarchitecture of the motor nuclei in the brainstem of salamanders. Journal of Comparative Neurology 278:195-208. full text (PDF)
Wake, D.B., K.C. Nishikawa, U. Dicke & G. Roth. 1988. Organization of the motor nuclei in the cervical spinal cord of salamanders. Journal of Comparative Neurology 278:181-194. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1989a. Organismal vs mechanistic biology. Herpetologica 42(4):473-479. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1989b. Book Review: Developmental Neurobiology of the frog. Copeia 4:1117-1119. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K. & R. Wassersug. 1989. Evolution of spinal nerve number in anuran larvae. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 33:15-24. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1990. Intraspecific spatial relationships of two species of terrestrial salamanders. Copeia 1990:418-426. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1990. The development of spinal motor neurons in salamanders. Acta Embryol. Morphol. Exper. 11(3):206-207. full text (PDF)
Roth, G., K.C. Nishikawa, D.B. Wake, U. Dicke & T. Matsushima. 1990. Mechanics and neuromorphology of feeding in amphibians. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 40:115-135. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. & D.C. Cannatella. 1991. Kinematics of prey capture in the tailed frog, Ascaphus truei (Anura: Ascaphidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 103:289-307. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. & G. Roth. 1991. The mechanism of tongue protraction during prey capture in the frog Discoglossus pictus. Journal of Experimental Biology 159:217-234. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C., G. Roth & U. Dicke. 1991. Motor neurons and motor columns of the anterior spinal cord of salamanders: post-hatching development and phylogenetic distribution. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 37:368-382. full text (PDF)
Deban, S.M. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1992. The kinematics of prey capture and the mechanism of tongue protraction in the green tree frog, Hyla cinerea. Journal of Experimental Biology 170: 235-256. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. & C. Gans. 1992. The role of hypoglossal sensory feedback during feeding in the marine toad, Bufo marinus. Journal of Experimental Zoology 264:245-252. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C., C. Anderson, S. Deban & J. O’Reilly. 1992. The evolution of neural circuits controlling feeding behavior in frogs. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 40:125-140. full text (PDF)
Roth, G., U. Dicke & K. Nishikawa. 1992. How do ontogeny, morphology, and physiology of sensory systems constrain and direct the evolution of amphibians? American Naturalist 139:S105-S124. full text (PDF)
Anderson, C.W. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1993. A prey-type dependent hypoglossal feedback system in the frog, Rana pipiens. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 42:189-196. full text (PDF)
Roth, G., K.C. Nishikawa, C. Naujoks-Manteuffel, A. Schmidt & D.B. Wake. 1993. Paedomorphosis and simplification in the nervous system of salamanders. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 42:137-170. full text (PDF)
Gray, L.A. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1995. Feeding kinematics of phyllomedusine tree frogs. Journal of Experimental Biology 198:457-463. full text (PDF)
O’Reilly, S.R. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1995. Mechanism of tongue protraction during prey capture in the spadefoot toad Spea multiplicata (Anura: Pelobatidae). Journal of Experimental Zoology 273:282-296. full text (PDF)
Ritter, D.A. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1995. The kinematics and mechanism of prey capture in the African pig-nosed frog (Hemisus marmoratum): the description of a radically divergent anuran tongue. Journal of Experimental Biology 198:2025-2040. full text (PDF)
Anderson, C.W. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1996. The roles of visual and proprioceptive information during motor program choice in frogs. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 179:753-762. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. & C. Gans. 1996. Mechanisms of prey capture and narial closure in the marine toad, Bufo marinus. Journal of Experimental Biology 199:2511-2529. full text (PDF)
Anderson, C.W. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1997. The functional anatomy and evolution of hypoglossal afferents in the leopard frog, Rana pipiens. Brain Research 771:285-291. full text (PDF)
Gray, L.A., J.C. O’Reilly & K.C. Nishikawa. 1997. Evolution of forelimb movement patterns for prey manipulation in anurans. Journal of Experimental Zoology 277:417-424. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1997. Emergence of novel functions during brain evolution. Bioscience 47:341-354. full text (PDF)
Roth, G., K.C. Nishikawa & D.B. Wake. 1997. Genome size, secondary simplification, and the evolution of the salamander brain. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 50:50-59. full text (PDF)
Valdez, C.M. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1997. Sensory modulation and motor program choice during feeding in the Australian frog, Cyclorana novaehollandiae. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 180:187-202. full text (PDF)
Anderson, C.W., K.C. Nishikawa & J. Keifer. 1998. Distribution of hypoglossal motor neurons innervating the prehensile tongue of the African pig-nosed frog, Hemisus marmoratum. Neuroscience Letters 244:5-8. full text (PDF)
Wiltenmuth, E.B. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1998. Geographic variation in agonistic and sensory behaviour in a ring species of salamander, Ensatina eschscholtzii. Animal Behavior 55:1595-1606. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 1999. Neuromuscular control of prey capture in frogs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences 354:941-954. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C., W.M. Kier & K.K. Smith. 1999. Morphology and mechanics of tongue movement in the African pig-nosed frog (Hemisus marmoratum): a muscular hydrostatic model. Journal of Experimental Biology 202:771-780. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C., S.T. Murray & M. Flanders. 1999. Do arm postures vary with the speed of reaching? Journal of Neurophysiology 81:2582-2586. full text (PDF)
Peters, S.E. & K.C. Nishikawa. 1999. Comparison of isometric contractile properties of the tongue muscles in three species of frogs, Litoria caerulea, Dyscophus guinetti and Bufo marinus. Journal of Morphology 242:107-124. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 2000. Feeding in Frogs, In: Feeding: form, function and evolution in tetrapod vertebrates. K. Schwenk, ed., Academic Press, San Diego. 117-144. full text (PDF)
Herrel, A., Meyers, J.J., Aerts, P. and K.C. Nishikawa 2000. Mechanism of prey capture in chameleons. Journal of Experimental Biology 203:3255-3263. full text (PDF)
Meyers, J.J. and K.C. Nishikawa 2000. Comparative study of tongue protrusion in three iguanian lizards: Sceloporus undulatus, Pseudotrapelus sinaitus and Chamaeleo jacksonii. Journal of Experimental Biology 203: 2833-2849. full text (PDF)
Herrel, A., Meyers, J.J., Aerts, P. and K.C. Nishikawa 2001. Functional implications of supercontracting muscle in the chameleon tongue retractors. Journal of Experimental Biology 204:3621-3627.full text (PDF)
Herrel, A., Meyers, J.J., Nishikawa, K.C. and F. De Vree 2001. Morphology and histochemistry of the hyolingual apparatus in chameleons. Journal of Morphology 249:154-170. full text (PDF)
Herrel, A., Meyers, J.J., Nishikawa, K.C. and F. De Vree 2001. Evolution of feeding motor patterns in lizards: modulatory complexity and constraints. American Zoologist 41:1311-1320.full text (PDF)
Mallett, E.S., Yamaguchi, G.T., Birch, J.M. and K.C. Nishikawa 2001. Feeding motor patterns in anurans: insights from biomechanical modeling. American Zoologist 41:1364-1374. full text (PDF)
Eisthen, H.L. and K.C. Nishikawa 2002. Convergence: Obstacle or opportunity. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 59:235-239. full text (PDF)
Herrel, A., Meyers, J.J., Timmermans, J.P. and KC. Nishikawa 2002. Supercontracting muscle: producing tension over extreme muscle lengths. Journal of Experimental Biology 205, 2167-2173. full text (PDF)
Meyers, J.J., Herrel, A. and K.C. Nishikawa 2002. Comparative study of innervation patterns of the hyobranchial musculature in three iguanian lizards: Sceloporus undulatus, Pseudotrapelus sinaitus and Chamaeleo jacksonii. Anatomical Record 267, 177-189. full text (PDF)
Nishikawa, K.C. 2002. Evolutionary convergence in nervous systems: insights from comparative phylogenetic studies. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 59(5-6):240-249. full text (PDF)
O’Reilly, J.C., Deban, S.M. and K.C. Nishikawa 2002. Derived life history characteristics constrain the evolution of aquatic feeding behavior in adult amphibians. In: Topics in Functional and Ecological Vertebrate Morphology (P. Aerts, K. D’Aout, A. Herrel and R. Van Damme, Eds.). Topics in Functional and Ecological Vertebrate Morphology, pp. 153-190. full text (PDF)
Meyers, J.J., O’Reilly, J.C., Monroy, J.M., and K.C. Nishikawa 2004. Mechanism of tongue protrusion in Microhylid frogs. Journal of Experimental Biology207:21-31.full text (PDF)
Corbacho, F., Nishikawa, K.C., Weerasuriya, A., Liaw, J.S. and Arbib, M.A. 2005. Schema-based learning of adaptable and flexible prey-catching in anurans I. The basic architecture. Biological Cybernetics. full text (PDF)
Meyers, J.J., Herrel, A. and Nishikawa, K.C. 2006. Morphological correlates of ant eating in horned lizards (Phrynosoma). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society full text (PDF)
Lappin, A., Monroy, J.A., Pilarski, J.Q., Zepnewski, E.D. Pierotti, D.J. and K.C. Nishikawa 2006. Storage and recovery of elastic potential energy powers ballistic prey capture in toads. Journal of Experimental Biology full text (PDF)