collaborators

5 papers

physics.bio-ph2026

Hydrodynamics constrain choanoflagellate collar geometry

Tasawar Iqbal, Catherine Penington, Christian Thomas +1

As the closest living relatives of animals, choanoflagellates exhibit remarkable diversity. Even their microvilli collar, used to filter and capture food, varies significantly amon…

physics.bio-ph2025

Remember when? Deciphering Ediacaran-Cambrian Metazoan behaviour and temporal memory using fossil movement paths

Brittany A. Laing, M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois +5

Evaluating the timing and trajectory of sensory system innovations is crucial for understanding the increase in phylogenetic, behavioural, and ecological diversity during the Ediac…

q-bio.PE2025

Spatial trends in Ediacaran Bilaterian trails

Brittany A. Laing, Luis A. Buatois, M. Gabriela Mángano +4

The Savannah Hypothesis and the Cambrian Information Revolution invoke the development of spatially heterogeneous resource distribution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition as…

q-bio.PE2025

Quantifying movement: Expanding the Ichnologist toolkit

Brittany A. Laing, Zoe Vestrum, Luke C. Strotz +4

The trace-fossil record serves as a rich dataset to examine fossil behaviour, ecologic interactions at community level, and evolutionary trends in behaviour across geological time.…

physics.flu-dyn2025

A Taylor swimming sheet under a finite Brinkman layer

Tasawar Iqbal, Catherine Penington, Christian Thomas +1

An asymptotic approach is employed to study the swimming speed of a two-dimensional Taylor swimming sheet beneath a Brinkman layer of finite thickness. This configuration is repres…