Rita S. Mehta, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
2005-2010 Evolution & Ecology University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 
 2010- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States 
Area:
Comparative functional and evolutionary morphology, biomechanics, animal physiology, behavioral ecology
Website:
http://mehta.eeb.ucsc.edu/
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Parents

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Gordon Burghardt grad student 2005 University of Tennessee (Evolution Tree)
 (Ph.D.: Constriction behavior, a key innovation in snake evolution: The integration of ethology and physiology)
Peter C. Wainwright post-doc 2005-2010 UC Davis

Children

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Crystal M Reynaga research assistant 2010-2012 UC Santa Cruz
Jacob S. Harrison research assistant 2013-2016 UC Santa Cruz
Ben Higgins grad student UC Santa Cruz
Sarah Kienle grad student 2013- UC Santa Cruz
Chris J. Law grad student 2013- UC Santa Cruz
Vikram B. Baliga grad student 2010-2016 UC Santa Cruz
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Valenzuela-Toro AM, Costa DP, Mehta R, et al. (2023) Unexpected decadal density-dependent shifts in California sea lion size, morphology, and foraging niche. Current Biology : Cb
Valenzuela-Toro AM, Mehta R, Pyenson ND, et al. (2023) Feeding morphology and body size shape resource partitioning in an eared seal community. Biology Letters. 19: 20220534
Kienle SS, Friedlaender AS, Crocker DE, et al. (2022) Trade-offs between foraging reward and mortality risk drive sex-specific foraging strategies in sexually dimorphic northern elephant seals. Royal Society Open Science. 9: 210522
Kienle SS, Powers J, Kendall T, et al. (2020) Context matters: Hawaiian monk seals switch between feeding strategies depending on ecological context. Integrative and Comparative Biology
Mehta RS, Dale KE, Higgins BA. (2020) Marine Protection Induces Morphological Variation in the California Moray, Gymnothorax mordax. Integrative and Comparative Biology
Redmann ER, Sheikh A, Alqahtani A, et al. (2020) Terrestrial locomotion in American eels (Anguilla rostrata): How substrate and incline affect movement patterns. Integrative and Comparative Biology
Tank A, Peterson HM, Pera V, et al. (2020) Diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging reveals distinct early breast tumor hemodynamic responses to metronomic and maximum tolerated dose regimens. Breast Cancer Research : Bcr. 22: 29
Gartner SM, Mehta RS. (2020) Effects of Diet and Intraspecific Scaling on the Viscera of Muraenid Fishes. Zoology (Jena, Germany). 139: 125752
Mehta RS, Akesson K, Redmann E, et al. (2020) Terrestrial locomotion in elongate fishes: exploring the roles of morphology and substrate in facilitating locomotion Journal of Zoology
Law CJ, Mehta RS. (2019) Dry versus wet and gross: Comparisons between the dry skull method and gross dissection in estimations of jaw muscle cross-sectional area and bite forces in sea otters. Journal of Morphology
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