ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Laura Quinche is an author on ‘ Convergent mechanisms, divergent strategies: a comparison of nectar intake between a generalist and a specialist bat species’, published in JEB. Laura is a graduate student in the lab of Alejandro Rico-Guevara and Sharlene E. Santana at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, investigating how morphology, biomechanics and behavior interact to shape feeding strategies and specialization in nectar-feeding bats.
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