Incomplete convergence of gliding mammal skeletons

Feeding ecology has a stronger evolutionary influence on functional morphology than on body mass in mammals

(2020) David M. Grossnickle   EVOLUTION

Stasis of functionally versatile specialists

(2020) Miriam L Zelditch et al.   EVOLUTION

Convergent evolution of olfactory and thermoregulatory capacities in small amphibious mammals

(2020) Quentin Martinez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When does form reflect function? Acknowledging and supporting ecomorphological assumptions

(2019) Kara L Feilich et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The postcranial anatomy of Brasilodon quadrangularis and the acquisition of mammaliaform traits among non-mammaliaform cynodonts

(2019) Morgan L. Guignard et al.   PLoS One

Untangling the Multiple Ecological Radiations of Early Mammals

(2019) David M. Grossnickle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Gliding dragons and flying squirrels: diversifying versus stabilizing selection on morphology following the evolution of an innovation

(2019) Terry John Ord et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data

(2019) Silvia Castiglione et al.   PLoS One

Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

(2019) Nathan S. Upham et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Late-surviving stem mammal links the lowermost Cretaceous of North America and Gondwana

(2018) Adam K. Huttenlocker et al.   NATURE

Inference of Adaptive Shifts for Multivariate Correlated Traits

(2018) Paul Bastide et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

(Non)Parallel Evolution

(2018) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel casts new light on the phylogeny of the group

(2018) Isaac Casanovas-Vilar et al.   eLife

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

A Jurassic gliding euharamiyidan mammal with an ear of five auditory bones

(2017) Gang Han et al.   NATURE

New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic

(2017) Qing-Jin Meng et al.   NATURE

New evidence for mammaliaform ear evolution and feeding adaptation in a Jurassic ecosystem

(2017) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

Ecomorphological convergence in planktivorous surgeonfishes

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

Combining geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis with evolutionary modeling: towards a synthesis

(2016) P. David Polly et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies

(2015) Natalie Cooper et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

Ecomorphology of Carnivora challenges convergent evolution

(2015) Carlo Meloro et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

A multivariate approach to infer locomotor modes in Mesozoic mammals

(2015) Meng Chen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Testing Convergence Versus History: Convergence Dominates Phenotypic Evolution for over 150 Million Years in Frogs

(2015) Daniel S. Moen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

mvmorph: anrpackage for fitting multivariate evolutionary models to morphometric data

(2015) Julien Clavel et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

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

The aerodynamic performance of the feathertail glider, Acrobates pygmaeus (Marsupialia: Acrobatidae)

(2014) Peter A. Pridmore et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals

(2014) Shundong Bi et al.   NATURE

A simple measure of the strength of convergent evolution

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

A new arboreal haramiyid shows the diversity of crown mammals in the Jurassic period

(2013) Xiaoting Zheng et al.   NATURE

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

Convergent Evolution within an Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes

(2012) Moritz Muschick et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Morphological convergence of the prey-killing arsenal of sabertooth predators

(2012) Julie A. Meachen-Samuels   PALEOBIOLOGY

PARALLEL AND NONPARALLEL ASPECTS OF ECOLOGICAL, PHENOTYPIC, AND GENETIC DIVERGENCE ACROSS REPLICATE POPULATION PAIRS OF LAKE AND STREAM STICKLEBACK

(2011) Renaud Kaeuffer et al.   EVOLUTION

CONVERGENCE, ADAPTATION, AND CONSTRAINT

(2011) Jonathan B. Losos   EVOLUTION

Ecological and Biomechanical Insights into the Evolution of Gliding in Mammals

(2011) Greg Byrnes et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

(2011) L. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

CONTINUOUS AND ARRESTED MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION IN SISTER CLADES OF CHARACIFORM FISHES: A PHYLOMORPHOSPACE APPROACH

(2008) Brian Sidlauskas   EVOLUTION

Convergences in Scapula Morphology among Small Cursorial Mammals: An Osteological Correlate for Locomotory Specialization

(2008) Lauren Seckel et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in living and extinct rodents

(2008) Joshua X. Samuels et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

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

(2008) C. Tristan Stayton   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Convergence and parallelism reconsidered: what have we learned about the genetics of adaptation?

(2007) J ARENDT et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION