Publications (1978-1989)

1989

Shaffer, H.B. and F. Breden. 1989. The relationship between allozyme variation and life history: Non-transforming salamanders are less variable. Copeia 1989(4):1016-1023.

Shaffer, H.B. 1989. Natural history, ecology, and evolution of the Mexican “Axolotls”. Axolotl Newsletter #18:5-12.


1988

Shaffer, H.B. 1988. Size and scaling in the indian frogs Nyctibatrachus and Nannobatrachus (Ranidae). Fieldiana Zoology, #46.

Shaffer, H.B. and G.V. Lauder. 1988. The ontogeny of functional design: Metamorphosis of feeding behavior in the Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum). Journal of Zoology, London 216:437-454.

Lauder, G.V. and H.B. Shaffer. 1988. The ontogeny of functional design: Are motor patterns conserved during major morphological transformations? Journal of Morphology 197:249-268.


1987

Inger, R.F., H.B. Shaffer, M. Koshy and R. Bakde. 1987. Ecological structure of a herpetological assemblage in South India. Amphibia-Reptilia 8: 189-202.

Shaffer, H.B. 1986. The utility of quantitative genetic parameter estimates in character weighting. Systematic Zoology 35(1): 124-134.


1986

Lauder, G.V. and H.B. Shaffer. 1986. Functional design of the feeding mechanism in lower vertebrates: Unidirectional and bidirectional flow systems. Zool J. Linn Soc. 88: 277-290.


1985

Shaffer, H.B. and G.V. Lauder. 1985. Patterns of variation in aquatic ambystomatid salamanders: Kinematics of the feeding mechanism. Evolution 39: 83-92.

Shaffer, H.B. and G.V. Lauder. 1985. Aquatic prey capture in ambystomatid salamanders: Patterns of variation in muscle activity. Journal of Morphology 183: 273-284.

Shaffer, H.B. and G.V. Lauder. 1985. Functional morphology of the feeding mechanism in aquatic ambystomatid salamanders. Journal of Morphology 185: 297-326.


1984

Shaffer, H.B. 1984a. Evolution in a paedomorphic lineage. I. An electrophoretic analysis of the Mexican ambystomatid salamanders. Evolution 38: 1194-1206.

Shaffer, H.B. 1984b. Evolution in a paedomorphic lineage. II. Allometry and form in the Mexican ambystomatid salamanders. Evolution 38: 1207-1218.

Inger, R.F., H.B. Shaffer, M. Koshy and R. Bakde. 1984a. A report on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from the Ponmudi, Kerala, South India. Part 1. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 81(2): 406-427.

Inger, R.F., H.B. Shaffer, M. Koshy and R. Bakde. 1984b. A report on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from the Ponmudi, Kerala, South India. Part 2. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 81(3): 551-570.


1983

Shaffer, H.B. 1983. Biosystematics of Ambystoma rosaceum and A. tigrinum in northwestern Mexico. Copeia 1983: 67-78.


1982

Feder, M.E., J.F. Lynch, H.B. Shaffer and D.B. Wake. 1982. Field body temperatures of tropical and temperate zone salamanders. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Services #52.


1981

Kiester, A.R., T. Nagylaki and B. Shaffer. 1981. Population dynamics of species with gynogenetic sibling species. Theoretical Population Biology 19(3): 358-369.


1978

Shaffer, H.B. 1978. Relative predation pressure on salamanders (Caudata, Plethodontidae) along an altitudinal transect in Guatemala. Copeia 1978: 268-272.