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Bruce C. Jayne is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with notable contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Biomedical Engineering. The scientist's work spans various topics including Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Robotic Locomotion and Control, Crustacean Biology and Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

The researcher has published in multiple scientific venues, with frequent appearances in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Integrative Organismal Biology, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Current Biology, and the Journal of Zoology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bruce C. Jayne include:

  • What Defines Different Modes of Snake Locomotion? (2020), Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Scaling Relationships of Maximal Gape in Two Species of Large Invasive Snakes, Brown Treesnakes and Burmese Pythons, and Implications for Maximal Prey Size (2022), Integrative Organismal Biology

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors. Among these, Noah D Gripshover appears most often, followed by Ian A. Bartoszek, Martin Kastner, Jarrod C. Petersen, and Thomas J. Roberts. Collaboration counts range from two to three joint works with each of these colleagues.

Bruce C. Jayne's research includes investigation into topics that cross disciplinary boundaries such as robotic locomotion and control in the context of animal behavior and biomechanics. Their studies address questions in animal movement, feeding performance, and anatomical function, often involving reptiles like snakes. Examples from the publications reveal explorations of locomotion modes, snake vertebrae morphology, and prey size relative to predator anatomy.

This body of work contributes data and analysis relevant to understanding ecological systems, animal physiology, and evolutionary biology within the broader domain of environmental science and organismal biology.

Best Publications

  • SELECTION ON LOCOMOTOR PERFORMANCE CAPACITY IN A NATURAL POPULATION OF GARTER SNAKES.

    Bruce C. Jayne;Albert F. Bennett

  • Comparative three-dimensional kinematics of the hindlimb for high-speed bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion of lizards

    Duncan J. Irschick;Bruce C. Jayne

  • Red and white muscle activity and kinematics of the escape response of the bluegill sunfish during swimming

    B. C. Jayne;G. V. Lauder

  • Kinematics of terrestrial snake locomotion

    Bruce C. Jayne

  • How swimming fish use slow and fast muscle fibers: implications for models of vertebrate muscle recruitment.

    B. C. Jayne;G. V. Lauder

  • KINEMATICS OF PECTORAL FIN LOCOMOTION IN THE BLUEGILL SUNFISH LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS

    Alice C. Gibb;Bruce C. Jayne;George V. Lauder

  • Muscular mechanisms of snake locomotion: an electromyographic study of lateral undulation of the Florida banded water snake (Nerodia fasciata) and the yellow rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta).

    Bruce C. Jayne

  • Interspecific scaling of the morphology and posture of the limbs during the locomotion of cats (Felidae).

    Lisa M. Day;Bruce C. Jayne

  • The energetic cost of limbless locomotion.

    Michael Walton;Bruce C. Jayne;Albert F. Bennet

  • Effects of incline on speed, acceleration, body posture and hindlimb kinematics in two species of lizard Callisaurus draconoides and Uma scoparia.

    Duncan J. Irschick;Bruce C. Jayne

  • Speed effects on midline kinematics during steady undulatory swimming of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides

    B. C. Jayne;G. V. Lauder

  • Muscular mechanisms of snake locomotion: an electromyographic study of the sidewinding and concertina modes of Crotalus cerastes, Nerodia fasciata and Elaphe obsoleta.

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  • The effects of surface diameter and incline on the hindlimb kinematics of an arboreal lizard (Anolis sagrei).

    Lawrence C. Spezzano;Bruce C. Jayne

  • RESOURCE USE IN ARBOREAL HABITATS: STRUCTURE AFFECTS LOCOMOTION OF FOUR ECOMORPHS OF ANOLIS LIZARDS

    W. Brett Mattingly;Bruce C. Jayne

  • Comparative morphology of the semispinalis-spinalis muscle of snakes and correlations with locomotion and constriction.

    Bruce C. Jayne

  • LOCOMOTOR PERFORMANCE AND ENERGETIC COST OF SIDEWINDING BY THE SNAKE CROTALUS CERASTES

    Stephen M. Secor;Bruce C. Jayne;Albert F. Bennett

  • Function of the dorsal fin in bluegill sunfish: Motor patterns during four distinct locomotor behaviors

    Bruce C. Jayne;Adrian F. Lozada;George V. Lauder

  • Locomotion of lizards on inclines and perches: hindlimb kinematics of an arboreal specialist and a terrestrial generalist

    Timothy E. Higham;Bruce C. Jayne

  • Red muscle motor patterns during steady swimming in largemouth bass: effects of speed and correlations with axial kinematics

    Bruce C. Jayne;George V. Lauder

  • Are muscle fibers within fish myotomes activated synchronously? Patterns of recruitment within deep myomeric musculature during swimming in largemouth bass

    Bruce C. Jayne;George V. Lauder

Frequent Co-Authors

George V. Lauder
George V. Lauder Harvard University
Harold K. Voris
Harold K. Voris Field Museum of Natural History
Albert F. Bennett
Albert F. Bennett University of California, Irvine
Duncan J. Irschick
Duncan J. Irschick University of Massachusetts Amherst
Timothy E. Higham
Timothy E. Higham University of California, Riverside
Peter C. Wainwright
Peter C. Wainwright University of California, Davis
Peter K. L. Ng
Peter K. L. Ng National University of Singapore
Theodore Garland
Theodore Garland University of California, Riverside

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