Elska B. Kaczmarek

Kaczmarek EB, Steer KE, Sarmet M, Shideler HE, Fauveau AM, Smith AE, Wallace SM, Kennedy ME, Velasco AB, Stroud TS, Blilie ME, Mayerl CJ. 2025. A ducted, biomimetic nipple replicates breastfeeding mechanics through ontogeny in an infant animal model. Accepted in Pediatric Research.

Kennedy ME, Kaczmarek EB, Smith AE, Volpe EC, Anderson DJ, Wallace SM, Shideler HE, Smith HI, Stroud TH, Mayerl CJ. 2025. Infant pigs demonstrate motor adaptation across multiple physiologic functions during feeding in response to dynamic changes in milk flow rate. Accepted in Journal of Applied Physiology.

Kaczmarek EB, Phillips JR, Ryerson B. 2025. Chapter 14: Respiratory System. In Hillard VK, Whitenack LB, & Ryerson B (Eds.), Comparative Vertebrate and Human Anatomy: Ecology, Evolution, and Function. PALNI Open Press. doi: 10.59319/yhfp2525

Kaczmarek EB^*, Shideler HE^*, Wallace SM, Anderson DJ, Volpe EC, Kennedy ME, Smith HI, Smith AE, Stroud TH, Mayerl CJ. 2025. Evaluating the impact of nipple design on tongue function in infant feeding using a dynamic endocast. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icaf130. doi: 10.1093/icb/icaf130

Mayerl CJ, Kaczmarek EB, Kennedy ME, Shideler HE, Smith AE, German RZ. 2025. Regional heterogeneity in the electromyography activity of extrinsic tongue muscles is critical to tongue function. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icaf029. doi: 10.1093/icb/icaf029

Mayerl CJ, Kaczmarek EB, Smith AE, Shideler HE, Edmonds CE, Steer KE, Adjerid K, Howe S, Johnson MJ, Danos N, German RZ. 2025. A ducted, biomimetic nipple improves aspects of infant feeding physiology and performance in an animal model. Dysphagia, 40 (4), 823-832. doi: 10.1007/s00455-024-10780-5

Sarmet M, Kaczmarek EB, Fauveau AM, Steer KE, Velasco AB, Smith AE, Kennedy ME, Shideler HE, Wallace SM, Stroud TS, Blilie ME, Mayerl CJ. 2025. A machine learning pipeline for automated bolus segmentation and area measurement in swallowing videofluoroscopy images of an infant pig model. Dysphagia. doi: 10.1007/s00455-025-10829-z

Kaczmarek EB, Brainerd EL. 2025. Buoyancy control and air breathing in royal knifefish (Chitala blanci) and a new hypothesis for the early evolution of vertebrate air-breathing behaviors. The Anatomical Record, 308 (4), 1164-1178. doi: 10.1002/ar.25460

Kaczmarek EB, Li EY, Capano JG, Falkingham PL, Gatesy SM, Brainerd EL, Camp AL. 2025. Precision and accuracy of the dynamic endocast method for measuring volume changes in XROMM studies. Journal of Experimental Biology, 228 (4), JEB249420. doi: 10.1242/jeb.249420

Mayerl CM, Capano JG, van Meer NMME, Weller HI, Kaczmarek EB, Chadam M, Blob RB, Brainerd EL, Wyneken J. 2024. Turtle girdles: Comparing the relationships between environment and behavior on forelimb function in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and river cooters (Pseudemys scripta). Journal of Morphology, 285 (12), e70007. doi: 10.1002/jmor.70007

Kaczmarek EB, Gartner SM, Westneat MW, Brainerd EL. 2022. Air breathing and suction feeding kinematics in the West African lungfish, Protopterus annectens. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 62 (4), 865-877. doi: 10.1093/icb/icac109

Gartner SM, Whitlow KR, Laurence-Chasen JD, Kaczmarek EB, Granatosky MC, Ross CF, Westneat MW. 2022. Suction feeding of West African lungfish (Protopterus annectens): An XROMM analysis of jaw mechanics, cranial kinesis, and hyoid mobility. Biology Open, 11 (9): bio059447. doi: 10.1242/bio.059447

Li EY^*, Kaczmarek EB^*, Olsen AM, Brainerd EL, Camp AL. 2022. Royal knifefish generate powerful suction feeding through large neurocranial elevation and high epaxial muscle power. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225 (11): jeb244294. doi: 10.1242/jeb.244294

Kaczmarek EB, Gidmark NJ. 2020. The bite force-gape relationship as an avenue of biomechanical adaptation to trophic niche in two salmonid fishes. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223 (20): jeb223180. doi: 10.1242/jeb.223180

van Meer NMME, Weller HI, Manafzadeh AR, Kaczmarek EB, Scott BR, Gussekloo SWS, Wilga CD, Brainerd EL, Camp AL. 2019. Intra-oropharyngeal food transport and swallowing in white-spotted bamboo sharks (Chiloscyllium plagiosum). Journal of Experimental Biology, 222 (20): jeb201426. doi: 10.1242/jeb.201426

Williams SA, Spear JK, Petrullo L, Goldstein DM, Lee AB, Peterson AL, Miano DA, Kaczmarek EB, Shattuck MR. 2019. Increased variation in numbers of presacral vertebrae in suspensory mammals. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3: 949-956. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0894-2.

Smith AE, Kaczmarek EB, Kennedy ME, Wallace SM, Volpe EC, Anderson DJ, Smith HI, Shideler HE, Stroud TS, Mayerl CJ. Fluid flow and feeding performance in infant mammals: Evaluating the impact of nipple design. In review.