Peishu Li, Ross Lab, and collaborators publish tongue base retraction paper
Congratulations to Dr. Peishu Li and his collaborators within and outside the Ross Lab (including two undergraduate students and one high schooler working with the lab) for publishing a new paper in Integrative and Comparative Biology. The paper compares and contrasts mechanisms of tongue base retraction in macaques, opossums, and dogs to investigate hypotheses of their evolutionary conservation, concluding that the the biomechanics of TBR are functionally diverse and not strictly determined by anatomical variation, allowing for evolutionary flexibility in hyolingual morphology without compromising swallowing performance.