Tail Weaponry in Ankylosaurs and Glyptodonts: An Example of a Rare but Strongly Convergent Phenotype

The evolution of tail weaponization in amniotes

(2018) Victoria M. Arbour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The most basal ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Albian–Cenomanian of China, with implications for the evolution of the tail club

(2018) Wenjie Zheng et al.   Scientific Reports

Rare ecomorphological convergence on a complex adaptive landscape: Body size and diet mediate evolution of jaw shape in squirrels (Sciuridae)

(2017) Miriam Leah Zelditch et al.   EVOLUTION

New anatomical information of the wukongopterid Kunpengopterus sinensis Wang et al., 2010 based on a new specimen

(2017) Xin Cheng et al.   PeerJ

Regarding the real diversity of Glyptodontidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) in the late Pliocene (Chapadmalalan Age/Stage) of Argentina

(2016) ALFREDO E. ZURITA et al.   ANAIS DA ACADEMIA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS

Quantification provides a conceptual basis for convergent evolution

(2016) Michael P. Speed et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts

(2016) Frédéric Delsuc et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Parallel selective pressures drive convergent diversification of phenotypes in pythons and boas

(2016) Damien Esquerré et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecomorphological convergence in planktivorous surgeonfishes

(2016) S. T. Friedman et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Brain shape convergence in the adaptive radiation of New World monkeys

(2016) Leandro Aristide et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why Sexually Selected Weapons Are Not Ornaments

(2016) Erin L. McCullough et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The definition, recognition, and interpretation of convergent evolution, and two new measures for quantifying and assessing the significance of convergence

(2015) C. Tristan Stayton   EVOLUTION

Ankylosaurid dinosaur tail clubs evolved through stepwise acquisition of key features

(2015) Victoria M. Arbour et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs

(2015) Victoria M. Arbour et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.

(2015) Susannah Catherine Rose Maidment et al.   PLoS One

What does convergent evolution mean? The interpretation of convergence and its implications in the search for limits to evolution

(2015) C. Tristan Stayton   Interface Focus

Imperfect Morphological Convergence: Variable Changes in Cranial Structures Underlie Transitions to Durophagy in Moray Eels

(2014) David C. Collar et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Morphology and Efficiency of a Specialized Foraging Behavior, Sediment Sifting, in Neotropical Cichlid Fishes

(2014) Hernán López-Fernández et al.   PLoS One

Structural adaptations to diverse fighting styles in sexually selected weapons

(2014) Erin L. McCullough et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanical limits to maximum weapon size in a giant rhinoceros beetle

(2014) E. L. McCullough   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomic basis for the convergent evolution of electric organs

(2014) J. R. Gallant et al.   SCIENCE

A simple measure of the strength of convergent evolution

(2014) Kevin Arbuckle et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The most complete known Neogene Glyptodontidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) from northern South America: taxonomic, paleobiogeographic, and phylogenetic implications

(2013) Alfredo E. Zurita et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Euoplocephalus tutus and the Diversity of Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and Montana, USA

(2013) Victoria M. Arbour et al.   PLoS One

Exceptional Convergence on the Macroevolutionary Landscape in Island Lizard Radiations

(2013) D. L. Mahler et al.   SCIENCE

SURFACE: detecting convergent evolution from comparative data by fitting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models with stepwise Akaike Information Criterion

(2013) Travis Ingram et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Histology shows that elongated neck ribs in sauropod dinosaurs are ossified tendons

(2012) N. Klein et al.   Biology Letters

Convergent Evolution within an Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes

(2012) Moritz Muschick et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution

(2012) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

CONVERGENCE, ADAPTATION, AND CONSTRAINT

(2011) Jonathan B. Losos   EVOLUTION

Oldest cingulate skulls provide congruence between morphological and molecular scenarios of armadillo evolution

(2011) G. Billet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Revisiting the intertropical Brazilian speciesHoplophorus euphractus(Cingulata, Glyptodontoidea) and the phylogenetic affinities ofHoplophorus

(2010) Kleberson de O. Porpino et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Proportions and function of the limbs of glyptodonts

(2010) SERGIO F. VIZCAÍNO et al.   LETHAIA

Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes

(2010) J. Muller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating Impact Forces of Tail Club Strikes by Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs

(2009) Victoria Megan Arbour   PLoS One

The sweet spot of a biological hammer: the centre of percussion of glyptodont (Mammalia: Xenarthra) tail clubs

(2009) R. E. Blanco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Paleobiogeography, biostratigraphy and systematics of the Hoplophorini (Xenarthra, Glyptodontoidea, Hoplophorinae) from the Ensenadan Stage (early Pleistocene to early-middle Pleistocene)

(2009) Alfredo E. Zurita et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The Evolution of Animal Weapons

(2008) Douglas J. Emlen   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Defensins and the convergent evolution of platypus and reptile venom genes

(2008) C. M. Whittington et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Is convergence surprising? An examination of the frequency of convergence in simulated datasets

(2008) C. Tristan Stayton   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY