Michael C. LaBarbera, Professor, Departments of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College

Recent Publications

LaBarbera, M. (1981) The ecology of Mesozoic Gryphaea, Exogyra, and Ilymatogyra (Bivalvia: Mollusca) in a modern ocean. Paleobiology, 7, 510-526.

Baumiller, T. and M. LaBarbera (1989) Metabolic rates of Caribbean deep water stalked and unstalked crinoids (Echinodermata). Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 93A, 391-394.

LaBarbera, M. (1989) Analyzing body size as a factor in ecology and evolution. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst., 20, 97-117.

LaBarbera, M. (1990) Principles of design of fluid transport systems in zoology. Science, 249, 992-1000.

LaBarbera, M. and G.E. Boyajian (1991) The function of astrorhizae in stromatoporoids: quantitative tests. Paleobiology, 17, 121-132.

LaBarbera, M. and R.A. Merz (1992) Postmortem changes in strength of gastropod shells: evolutionary implications for hermit crabs, snails, and their mutual predators. Paleobiology, 18, 367-377.

LaBarbera, M. (1993) Stromatoporoid astrorhizae approximate an optimal fluid transport system. Experientia, 49, 539-541.

Marcinek, D. and M. LaBarbera (1994) Quantitative branching geometry of the vascular system of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus (Arthropoda, Crustacea): a test of Murray's law in an open circulatory system. Biol. Bull., 186, 124-133.