Publications


​PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Kawano SM, Martin J, Medina J, Doherty C, Zheng G, Hsiao E, Evans MJ, de Queiroz K, Pyron RA, Huie JM, Lima R, Langan EM, Peters Alan, Irschick DJ. 2024. Applying 3D models of giant salamanders to explore form-function relationships in early tetrapods. Integrative and Comparative Biology ​icae129. Available HERE.
Evans AJ, Naylor ER, Lujan NK, Kawano SM, Hernandez LP. 2024. Deploy the proboscis!: Functional morphology and kinematics of a novel form of extreme jaw protrusion in the hingemouth, Phractolaemus ansorgii (Gonorynchiformes). Journal of Anatomy 224(6): 929-942.​ Available HERE. 
Naylor ER, Kawano SM. 2022. Mudskippers modulate their locomotor kinematics when moving on deformable and inclined substrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology: icac084.​ Available HERE. 
Anderson PSL, Kawano SM. 2022. Different traits at different rates: the effects of dynamic strain rate on structural traits in biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology: icac066.​ Available HERE. 
Quigley ZMG, Blob RW, Kawano SM. 2022. Kinematic comparisons between mudskipper fins and salamander limbs during terrestrial locomotion. Journal of Experimental Zoology A 337(6): 612-625. Available HERE. 
Kawano SM, Blob RW. 2022. Terrestrial force production by the limbs of a semi-aquatic salamander provides insight into the evolution of terrestrial locomotor mechanics. Journal of Experimental Biology 225(7):
 jeb242795. Available HERE. ​
Huie JM, Summers AP,  Kawano SM. 2022. SegmentGeometry: A tool for measuring second moment of area in 3D Slicer. Integrative Organismal Biology 4(1): obac009.​ Available HERE. 
Higham TE, Ferry LA, Schmitz L, Irschick DJ, Starko S, Anderson PSL, Bergmann PJ, Jamniczky HA, Monteiro LA, Navon D, Messier J, Carrington E, Farina SC, Feilich K, Hernandez LP, Johnson MA, ​Kawano SM, Law CJ, Longo SJ, Martin CH, Martone PT, Rico-Guevara A, Santana SE, and Niklas KJ. 2021. Linking ecomechanical models and functional traits to investigate phenotypic diversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36(9): P860-873. Available HERE. 
Kawano SM. 2020. “Selection Gradients.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. Ed. Douglas Futuyma. New York: Oxford University Press. Available HERE.
Moody KN*, Kawano SM*, Bridges WC, Blob RW, Schoenfuss HL, Ptacek MB. 2017. Contrasting post-settlement selection results in many-to-one mapping of high performance phenotypes in the Hawaiian waterfall-climbing goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Evolutionary Ecology 31(4): 489-516.  Paper available HERE. * = co-first authors. 
McInroe B*, Astley HC*, Gong C, Kawano SM, Schiebel PM, Rieser JM, Choset H, Blob RW, Goldman DI. 2016. Tail use improves performance on soft substrates in models of early vertebrate land locomotors. Science 353(6295): 154-158. Paper available HERE. Science Perspective article available HERE. * = co-first authors.
Kawano SM, Economy DR, Kennedy MS, Dean D, Blob RW. 2016. Comparative limb bone loading in the humerus and femur of the tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum: testing the "mixed-chain" hypothesis for skeletal safety factors. Journal of Experimental Biology 219: 341-353. Paper available HERE. Dataset available HERE. 
Kawano SM, Blob RW. 2013.  Propulsive forces of mudskipper fins and salamander limbs during terrestrial locomotion: implications for the invasion of land.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 53(2): 283-294. Paper available HERE.  ​
Bohórquez-Herrera J, Kawano SM, Domenici P. 2013. Foraging behavior delays mechanically-stimulated escape responses in fish.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 53(5): 780-786. Paper available HERE. ​
Kawano SM, Bridges WC, Schoenfuss HL, Maie T, Blob RW. 2013. Differences in locomotor behavior correspond to different patterns of morphological selection in two species of waterfall-climbing gobiid fishes.  Evolutionary Ecology 27: 949-969. Paper available HERE. Dataset available HERE.
Schoenfuss HL, Maie T, Kawano SM, Blob RW.  2011. Performance across extreme environments: comparing waterfall climbing among amphidromous gobioid fishes from Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Cybium 35(4): 361-369. Paper available HERE. 
Blob RW, Kawano SM, Moody KN, Bridges WC, Maie T, Ptacek MB, Julius ML, Schoenfuss HL. 2010. Morphological selection and tradeoffs between predator escape and climbing in Hawaiian gobies. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50(6): 1185-99.  Paper available HERE.
PREPRINTS​
Kawano SM, Blob RW. 2021. Terrestrial force production by the limbs of a semi-aquatic salamander provides insight into the evolution of terrestrial locomotor mechanics. biorxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.01.442256. Paper available HERE.
​OTHER PUBLISHED WORK
  1. Gibb AC, Amplo H, Struble M, Kawano SM. 2022. A step forward: functional diversity and emerging themes of slow-speed locomotion in vertebrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology icac139. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac139. Paper available HERE. 
  2. Kawano SM. 2017. When natural armour does more than protect. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 3840. doi: 10.1242/jeb.147645. Paper available HERE.
  3. Kawano SM. 2017. Fish larvae feed in the danger zone. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 2683. doi: 10.1242/jeb.147496​. Paper available HERE.
  4. Kawano SM. 2017. Turtle shells have built-in shock absorbers. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 1545-1546. doi: 10.1242/jeb.147348. Paper available HERE.
  5. Kawano SM. 2017. Flexible fins may help fish climb on land. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 332-333. doi: 10.1242/jeb.147215. Paper available HERE.
  6. Kawano SM. 2014. Evaluation of the functional capabilities of fins and limbs for moving on land: insights into the invasion of land by tetrapods. Clemson University Ph.D. Dissertation. Document available HERE. 
  7. Kawano SM. 2007. Conservation and current status of the Hawaiian hawk (Buteo solitarius). Prized Writing: the Essay and Scientific & Technical Writing 2006-2007.  Davis, Regents of the University of California. Paper available HERE.
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​PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
  1. Travis KG, Kawano SM. 2020. Comparative biomechanics of submerged and emerged walking in the epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium ocellatum). hhttp://vps40083.inmotionhosting.com/~sicb/meetings/2020/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=1804
  2. Kawano SM, Blob RW. 2020. Evaluating limb bone stresses of early tetrapods in the context of the evolutionary invasion of land. http://vps40083.inmotionhosting.com/~sicb/meetings/2020/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=569
  3. Kawano SM, Blob RW. 2019. Comparison of salamander limb bone mechanics to model locomotor function across the water-to-land transition. J Morph 280(S1): S1-S244. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmor.21003
  4. Blob RW, Young VKH, Munteanu VD, Diamond KM, Mayerl CL, Kawano SM. 2019. Changes in skeletal loading as a mediator of morphological change across evolutionary transitions in habitat. J Morph 280(S1): S1-S244. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmor.21003
  5. Valencia M, Kawano SM. 2019. Comparative kinematics of the forelimb during terrestrial locomotion in semi-aquatic versus terrestrial salamander. Integr Comp Biol 59: E427. http://vps40083.inmotionhosting.com/~sicb/meetings/2019/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=1377  
  6. Kawano SM. 2016. A synthesis of quantitative methods to estimate patterns of phenotypic selection. Integr Comp Biol 56: E107. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2016/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=786
  7. McInroe BM, Gong C, Kawano SM, Astley H, Blob RW, Choset H, Goldman D. 2016. Robotic and mathematical modeling reveals principles of appendage coordination in terrestrial locomotion. Integr Comp Biol 56: E145. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2016/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=1129
  8. Moody KN, Kawano SM, Bridges WC, Blob RW, Schoenfuss HL, Ptacek MP. 2016. Opportunity for selection: the shape of the fitness landscape in an amphidromous waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Integr Comp Biol 56: E152. http://sicb.org/meetings/2016/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=1224
  9. Kawano SM, Blob RW. 2015. Mixed chains of safety factors in the limb bones of salamanders: implications for differential limb function in the evolution of terrestrial locomotion. Integr Comp Biol 55: E94. Finalist for Best Student Presentation in the Division of Comparative Biomechanics at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2015/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=211 
  10. McInroe BM, Astley HC, Kawano SM, Blob RW, Goldman DL. 2015. Biological and robotic modeling of the evolution of legged locomotion on land. Integr Comp Biol 55: E123. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2015/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=787
  11. Kawano SM, Bridges WC, Schoenfuss HL, Blob RW. 2014. Intraspecific variation in patterns of morphological selection in the waterfall-climbing goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Integr Comp Biol 54: E108. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2014/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=473
  12. Kawano SM, Blob RW. 2013. Comparative appendicular function during terrestrial locomotion: implication for the invasion of land. Integr Com Biol 53: E107. Invited talk to the "Vertebrate Land Invasions" Symposium at SICB. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2013/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=232
  13. Perlman BM, Kawano S, Blob RW, Ashley-Ross MA. 2013. Citius, altius, forius: jumping kinematics and kinetics in two distantly related teleosts. Integr Comp Biol 53: E165. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2013/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=443
  14. Moody KN, Kawano SM, Maie T, Blob RW, Schoenfuss HL, Blum MJ, Ptacek MB. 2012. Morphological divergence despite gene flow in a Hawaiian waterfall-climbing goby. Integr Comp Biol 52: E124. http://sicb.org/meetings/2012/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=421
  15. Blob RW, Kawano SM, Moody KN, Burchfield HJ, Maie T, Ptacek MB, Schoenfuss HL. 2012. Environmentally correlated divergence in morphology and climbing performance in waterfall-climbing fish from Hawai’i and Kaua’i. Integr Comp Biol 52: E15. http://sicb.org/meetings/2012/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=61
  16. Kawano SM, Blob RW. 2012. Force production by the forelimbs of salamanders and pectoral fins of mudskippers during terrestrial locomotion. Integr Comp Biol 52: E90. http://sicb.org/meetings/2012/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=17
  17. Blob RW, Kawano SM, Bridges WC, Maie T, Ptacek MB, Julius ML, Schoenfuss HL. 2010. Morphological selection and tradeoffs between predator escape and climbing in Hawaiian gobies. Integr Comp Biol 50: E13. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2010/schedule/abstractdetails.php3?id=1077
  18. Bohórquez-Herrera J, Kawano SM, Domenici P. 2010. Effects of prey capture on escape responses of the silverspotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus). Integr Comp Biol 50: E207. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2010/schedule/abstractdetails.php3?id=1073
  19. Moody KN, Kawano SM, Ptacek MB, Maie T, Julius ML, Schoenfuss HL, Blob RW. 2010. Morphological divergence between subpopulations of newly recruited juvenile climbing gobies from different Hawaiian islands: implications for local adaptation. Integr Comp Biol 50: E269. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2010/schedule/abstractdetails.php3?id=1086
  20. Blob RW, Kawano SM, Maie T, Cediel RA, Ptacek MB, Bridges WC, Schoenfuss HL. 2009. Predator-induced selection on body shape in waterfall-climbing gobiid fish from Hawai’i. Integr Comp Biol 49: E16. http://sicb.org/meetings/2009/schedule/abstractdetails.php3?id=505
  21. Kawano SM, Schoenfuss HL, Maie T, Bridges WC, Blob RW. 2009. Comparative morphological selection: waterfall-climbing in gobiid fishes from Dominica versus Hawai’i. Integr Comp Biol 49: E252. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2009/schedule/abstractdetails.php3?id=468