Current Projects
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Pelvic and thigh musculature in frogs (Anura) and origin of anuran jumping locomotion
Tomáš Přikryl, Peter Aerts, Pavla Havelková, Anthony Herrell, and Zbyněk Roček
(Joint project of the Department of Paleobiology,
Academy of Sciences, Prague
and
Laboratory of Functional Morphology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk)
Discoglossus pictus
Burrowing in Pelobates fuscus
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Evolution of the anuran assemblages during the Late Cretaceous of North America
Jeff Eaton, Jim Gardner, and Zbyněk Roček
The cranial skeleton of the leptodactylid frog Thaumastosaurus from the Eocene of Europe
Jean-Claude Rage and Zbyněk Roček
Development of the pectoral girdle in a primitve anuran Discoglossus,
and its transformation in the ancestry of frogs
Pavla Havelková and Zbyněk Roček
Transformations of aortic arches during metamorphosis of Pelobates fuscus
Hana Kolesová and Zbyněk Roček
Gigantism in tadpoles of Palaeobatrachus
Zbyněk Roček, Ronald Böttcher and Richard Wassersug