Alejandro Rico-Guevara

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2014 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States 
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Rico-Guevara A, Sustaita D, Hurme KJ, et al. (2024) Upper bill bending as an adaptation for nectar feeding in hummingbirds. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 21: 20240286
Colwell RK, Rangel TF, Fučíková K, et al. (2023) Repeated Evolution of Unorthodox Feeding Styles Drives a Negative Correlation between Foot Size and Bill Length in Hummingbirds. The American Naturalist. 202: 699-720
Wei J, Rico-Guevara A, Nicolson SW, et al. (2023) Honey bees switch mechanisms to drink deep nectar efficiently. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2305436120
Hewes AE, Baldwin MW, Buttemer WA, et al. (2023) How Do Honeyeaters Drink Nectar? Integrative and Comparative Biology
Rico-Guevara A, Hurme KJ, Rubega MA, et al. (2023) Nectar feeding beyond the tongue: hummingbirds drink using phase-shifted bill opening, flexible tongue flaps and wringing at the tips. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 226
Quinche LL, Santana SE, Rico-Guevara A. (2022) Morphological specialization to nectarivory in Phyllostomus discolor (Wagner, 1843) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007)
Rico-Guevara A, Rubega MA. (2017) Functional morphology of hummingbird bill tips: their function as tongue wringers. Zoology (Jena, Germany). 123: 1-10
Rico-Guevara A, Fan TH, Rubega MA. (2015) Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282: 20151014
Rico-Guevara A, Rubega MA. (2012) Hummingbird feeding mechanics: comments on the capillarity model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: E867; author reply E
Rico-Guevara A, Rubega MA. (2011) The hummingbird tongue is a fluid trap, not a capillary tube. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 9356-60
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