*Corresponding author, ⁺student/RA author from the lab
Kuo C-Y*. In revision. Resolving the paradox of local warning signal diversity with predator learning. The American Naturalist.
Kuo C-Y*, Chen Y-H⁺, Meng A-C⁺, Wu Y-Z⁺, Yang S-Y⁺, Yeh C-N⁺. Exploration correlates with dietary choosiness and avoidance learning style in a generalist predator. Behavioral Ecology 35: arae065. pdf
Wright DS, Rodriguez-Fuentes J, Ammer L, Darragh K, Kuo C-Y, McMillan WO, Jiggins CD, Montgomery SH, Merrill RM. Selection drives divergence of eye morphology in sympatric Heliconius butterflies. Evolution 78: 1338-1346. pdf
Rossi M, Hausmann AE, Alcami P, Moest MH, Wright DS, Kuo C-Y, Lozano D, Maulana A, Melo-Florez L, Rueda-Munoz G, McMahon S, Linares M, McMillan WO, Pardo-Diaz C, Salazar C, Merrill RM. Adaptive introgression of a visual preference gene. Science 383: 1368-1373 (cover). pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Melo-Flóres L, Aragón A, Oberweiser MM, McMillan WO, Pardo-Diaz C, Salazar C, Merrill RM*. Divergent warning patterns influence male and female mating behaviours in a tropical butterfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 37: 267-273 (cover). pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Chin H-E⁺, Wu Y-Z⁺. Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator. Behavioral Ecology 34: 708-717. pdf
Hausmann AE, Freire M, Alfthan SA, Kuo, C-Y, Linares M, McMillan O, Pardo-Diaz C, Salazar C, Merrill RM. Does sexual conflict contribute to the evolution of novel warning patterns? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36: 563-578. pdf
Sutton GP, St Pierre R, Kuo C-Y, Summers A, Bergbreiter S, Cox S, Patek SN. Dual spring force couples yield multi functionality and ultrafast, precision rotation in tiny mechanical systems. Journal of Experimental Biology 225: jeb244077. pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Ko C-Y, Lai Y-Z. Assessing warming impacts on marine fishes by integrating physiology-guided distribution projections, life-history changes, and food web dynamics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1343-1357. pdf
Yu C-N, Kuo C-Y, Lin H-C, Su Y-C. Foraging payoffs change with group size in kin and non-kin groups of an Argyrodinae kleptoparasitic spider, Argyrodes miniaceus. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 813777. pdf
Tu Z-W, Lai Y-Z, Chen H-C, Kuo C-Y, Lee P-F, Ko C-Y. Trends in geographic sensitivity of marine fishes over decades in the North Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 748278. pdf
Hausmann AE, Kuo C-Y, Freire M, Rueda-M N, Linares M, Pardo-Diaz C, Salazar C, Merrill RM. Light environment influences mating behaviours during the early stages of divergence in tropical butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20210157. pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Muñoz MM, Irschick DJ. Lizard foraging: a perspective integrating sensory ecology and life histories. In: Behavior of Lizards (Eds: V. Bels and Anthony Russell). CRC Press. (peer-reviewed)
Farley G, Wise M, Harrison J, Sutton GP, Kuo C-Y, Patek SN. Adhesive latching and legless leaping in small, worm-like insect larvae. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb201129. pdf
Imburgia MJ, Kuo C-Y, Briggs DR, Irschick DJ, Crosby AJ. Effects of digit orientation on gecko adhesive force capacity: synthetic and behavioral studies. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51: 182-192. pdf
Ilton M, Bhamla S, Ma X, Cox S, Fitchett LL, Kim Y, Koh J-S, Krishnamurthy D, Kuo C-Y, Temel FZ, Crosby A, Prakash M, Sutton G, Wood R, Azizi E, Bergbreiter S, Patek S. The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems. Science 360: eaao1082. pdf
Irschick DJ, Fu AL, Lauder GV, Wilga CD, Kuo, C-Y, Hammerschlag N. A 2017. comparative morphological analysis of body and fin shape for eight shark species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 122: 589-604. pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Irschick DJ. 2016. Ecology drives natural variation in an extreme antipredator trait: a cost-benefit analysis integrating modeling and field data. Functional Ecology 30: 953-963. pdf
Fu AL, Hammerschlag N, Lauder GV, Wilga CD, Kuo C-Y, Irschick DJ. 2016. Ontogeny of head and caudal fin shape of an apex marine predator: The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier). Journal of Morphology 277: 556-564. pdf
Laborite D, Clemente CJ, Dittrich A, Kuo C-Y, Crosby AJ, Irschick DJ, Federle W. 2016. Extreme allometry of animal adhesive pads and the size limits of adhesion-based climbing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113: 1297-1302. pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Irschick DJ, Lailvaux SP. 2015. Trait compensation between boldness and the propensity for tail autotomy under different food availabilities in similarly-aged brown anole lizards. Functional Ecology 29: 385-392. pdf
Gillis GB, Kuo C-Y, Irschick DJ. 2013. The impact of tail loss on stability during jumping in green anoles (Anolis carolinensis). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 680-689. pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Gillis GB, Irschick DJ. 2012. Take this broken tail and learn to jump: the ability to recover from reduced in-air stability in tailless green anole lizards (Anolis carolinensis [Squamata:Dactyloidae]). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107: 583-592. pdf
Irschick DJ, Kuo C-Y. 2012. Functional traits of species and individuals. In Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology. Eds. A. Hastings and L. Gross. University of California Press.
Kuo C-Y*, Gillis GB, Irschick DJ. 2011. Loading effect on jump performance in green anole lizards Anolis carolinensis. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 2073-2079. pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Y-T Lin, Y-S, Lin. 2009. Sexual size and shape dimorphism in an agamid lizard, Japalura swinhonis (Squamata: Iguania: Agamidae). Zoological Studies 48(3): 351-361 (cover). pdf
Kuo C-Y*, Y-S. Lin, Y. K. Lin. 2007. Resource use and morphology of two sympatric Japalura lizards (Iguania: Agamidae). Journal of Herpetology 41(4): 713-723. pdf