publications

2023

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    Epidermal threads reveal the origin of hagfish slime
    Yu Zeng ,  David C Plachetzki ,  Kristen Nieders ,  Hannah Campbell ,  Marissa Cartee ,  M Sabrina Pankey ,  Kennedy Guillen ,  and  Douglas Fudge
    Elife, 2023
  2. A Minimal Framework for Describing Living Systems: AMulti-Dimensional View of Life Across Scales
    TP Pavlic ,  K Caetano-Anolles ,  B Ewers ,  S Iyer ,  JR Lucas ,  AP Seale ,  and  Y Zeng
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2023
  3. Packaging of thread skeins in hagfish slime gland thread cells
    Y Zeng ,  and  D Fudge
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2023
  4. The case for studying tadpole autecology, with comments on strategies to study other small, fast-moving animals in nature
    Fabiane S Annibale ,  Richard J Wassersug ,  Denise de C Rossa-Feres ,  Fausto Nomura ,  Cinthia A Brasileiro ,  Ariadne F Sabbag ,  Yu Zeng ,  and  Jackson R Phillips
    Austral Ecology, 2023
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    Beyond winglets: evolutionary scaling of flight-related morphology in stick insects (Phasmatodea)
    Yu Zeng ,  Sehoon Park ,  Camille Gonzales ,  Stephanie Yom ,  Faszly Rahim ,  and  Robert Dudley
    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023
  6. New integrated evidences reveal male polymorphism and species delimitation in stalk-eyed fruit flies
    Xiaolin Chen ,  Ning Huangfu ,  Yong Wang ,  Yu Zeng ,  Tock H Chua ,  and  Chaodong Zhu
    Zoologica Scripta, 2023
  7. Air-to-land transitions: from wingless animals and plant seeds to shuttlecocks and bio-inspired robots
    Victor M Ortega-Jimenez ,  Ardian Jusufi ,  Christian E Brown ,  Yu Zeng ,  Sunny Kumar ,  Robert Siddall ,  Baekgyeom Kim ,  Elio J Challita ,  Zoe Pavlik ,  Meredith Priess ,  and  others
    Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2023
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    Petal-shaped femoral lobes facilitate gliding in orchid mantises
    Xin Zhao ,  Jing-Xin Liu ,  Tristan Charles-Dominique ,  Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz ,  Bing Dong ,  Lin Yan ,  James C O’Hanlon ,  Yu Zeng ,  and  Zhanqi Chen
    Current Biology, 2023

2022

  1. The first biological portrait of stalk-eyed fruit flies: life history, reproductive biology and host use patterns in Pelmatops spp.(Diptera: Tephritidae)
    Ning Huangfu ,  Yong Wang ,  Yu Zeng ,  Tock H Chua ,  Chaodong Zhu ,  and  Xiaolin Chen
    Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2022

2021

  1. Suction anchoring with an umbelliform oral disc by the surface-feeding tadpole of Brachytarsophrys chuannanensis Fei et al., 2001
    Yu Zeng
    Herpetology Notes, 2021
  2. A minimal framework for describing living systems: a multi-dimensional view of life across scales
    Kelsey Caetano-Anollés ,  Brent Ewers ,  Shilpa Iyer ,  Jeffrey R Lucas ,  Theodore P Pavlic ,  Andre P Seale ,  and  Yu Zeng
    Integrative and comparative biology, 2021
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    Evolution of a remarkable intracellular polymer and extreme cell allometry in hagfishes
    Yu Zeng ,  Skylar Petrichko ,  Kristen Nieders ,  David Plachetzki ,  and  Douglas Fudge
    Current Biology, 2021
  4. Scaling of secretory cells and cell products with body size in hagfishes
    Y Zeng ,  S Petrichko ,  K Nieders ,  and  D Fudge
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2021

2020

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    A tale of winglets: evolution of flight morphology in stick insects
    Yu Zeng ,  Connor O’Malley ,  Sonal Singhal ,  Faszly Rahim ,  Sehoon Park ,  Xin Chen ,  and  Robert Dudley
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
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    Self-propelling and rolling of a sessile-motile aggregate of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus
    Yu Zeng ,  and  Bin Liu
    Communications Biology, 2020
  3. Canopy parkour: movement ecology of post-hatch dispersal in a gliding nymphal stick insect, Extatosoma tiaratum
    Yu Zeng ,  Sofia W Chang ,  Janelle Y Williams ,  Lynn Y-Nhi Nguyen ,  Jia Tang ,  Grisanu Naing ,  Chandni Kazi ,  and  Robert Dudley
    Journal of Experimental Biology, 2020
  4. Epidermal Threads in Pacific Hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)
    Y Zeng ,  K Nieders ,  S Petrichko ,  and  D Fudge
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2020

2018

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    Biomechanics of omnidirectional strikes in flat spiders
    Yu Zeng ,  and  Sarah Crews
    Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018
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  2. Omnidirectional strikes in flattie spiders (Selenopidae)
    Sarah Crews ,  and  Yu Zeng
    In Entomology 2018 , 2018

2017

  1. Active motility in bimodular bacterial aggregates
    Yu Zeng ,  and  Bin Liu
    In APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts , 2017
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    Biomechanics of aerial righting in wingless nymphal stick insects
    Yu Zeng ,  Kenrick Lam ,  Yuexiang Chen ,  Mengsha Gong ,  Zheyuan Xu ,  and  Robert Dudley
    Interface Focus, 2017
  3. Dynamic leg deformations drive omnidirectional strike maneuvers in flat spiders
    Y Zeng ,  and  S Crews
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2017

2016

  1. Bacteria rolling: motilities of rosette colonies in Caulobacter crescentus
    Yu Zeng ,  and  Bin Liu
    In APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts , 2016

2015

  1. Visual ecology of directed aerial descent in first-instar nymphs of the stick insect Extatosoma tiaratum
    Yu Zeng ,  Yvonne Lin ,  Arianna Abundo ,  and  Robert Dudley
    The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2015

2014

  1. Biomechanics of asymmetric leg behaviors in aerial righting maneuvers of larval stick insects
    Y Zeng ,  K Lam ,  M Gong ,  YX Chen ,  and  R Dudley
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2014

2013

  1. Stepwise Flight Reduction Evolved Along Ecological Gradient
    Y Zeng ,  J Tang ,  S Singhal ,  C Gonzales ,  F Rahim ,  G Naing ,  A Aziz ,  and  R Dudley
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2013
  2. Flight with Winglets in Stick Insects
    Y Zeng ,  H Nunns ,  and  H Dudley
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2013
  3. Biomechanics and evolution of flight in stick insects
    Yu Zeng
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY , 2013

2012

  1. The Effect of Asymmetric Morphology in the Aerial Righting of a Larval Stick Insect
    K Lam ,  Y Zeng ,  and  R Dudley
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2012
  2. Feeding at the Air-water Interface: Biomechanics and Functional Morphology of Feeding in Funnel-mouthed Tadpoles (Megophryidae: Megophrys)
    Yu Zeng
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2012
  3. Wing Reduction and Flight Biomechanic in Stick Insects (Insecta: Phasmatodea)
    Yu Zeng ,  and  Robert Dudley
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2012

2011

  1. Aerial righting reflexes in flightless animals
    Ardian Jusufi ,  Yu Zeng ,  Robert J Full ,  and  Robert Dudley
    2011
  2. The Behavioral Correlates of Directed Aerial Descent in Larval Stick Insects
    Y Zeng ,  S Chang ,  N Nguyen ,  C Kazi ,  and  R Dudley
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2011
  3. Functionality of Wings in Flight and Gliding of Stick Insects
    Y Zeng ,  and  R Dudley
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2011
  4. Aerial Righting Responses: A Comparative Approach
    A Jusufi ,  Y Zeng ,  RJ Full ,  and  R Dudley
    In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY , 2011

2005

  1. A New Species of the Genus Maurya Distant (Hemiptera: Membracidae) from China
    Yu Zeng
    Entomotaxonomia, 2005