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

A molecular mechanism for the origin of a key evolutionary innovation, the bird beak and palate, revealed by an integrative approach to major transitions in vertebrate history

(2015) Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar et al.   EVOLUTION

Tracing functional adaptation in African cichlid fishes through morphometric analysis of fossil teeth: exploring the methods

(2015) Jorunn Dieleman et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

The contribution of geometric morphometric analysis to prehistoric ichnology: the example of large canid tracks and their implication for the debate concerning wolf domestication

(2015) Lysianna Ledoux et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Morphometric analysis of the forelimb and pectoral girdle of the Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurOryctodromeus cubicularisand implications for digging

(2015) Jamie L. Fearon et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Comparative anatomy and three-dimensional geometric-morphometric study of the bony labyrinth of Bibymalagasia (Mammalia, Afrotheria)

(2015) Julien Benoit et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Evolution of the snake body form reveals homoplasy in amniote Hox gene function

(2015) Jason J. Head et al.   NATURE

Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity?

(2015) Alexander J. Hetherington et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Finite Element Analysis of the Cingulata Jaw: An Ecomorphological Approach to Armadillo’s Diets

(2015) Sílvia Serrano-Fochs et al.   PLoS One

The fossil record of phenotypic integration and modularity: A deep-time perspective on developmental and evolutionary dynamics

(2015) Anjali Goswami et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Correlation betweenHoxcode and vertebral morphology in archosaurs

(2015) Christine Böhmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

StereoMorph: an R package for the collection of 3D landmarks and curves using a stereo camera set-up

(2015) Aaron M. Olsen et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

3D morphometric analysis of fossil canid skulls contradicts the suggested domestication of dogs during the late Paleolithic

(2015) Abby Grace Drake et al.   Scientific Reports

Analyzing Fluctuating Asymmetry with Geometric Morphometrics: Concepts, Methods, and Applications

(2015) Christian Klingenberg   Symmetry-Basel

3D Bite Modeling and Feeding Mechanics of the Largest Living Amphibian, the Chinese Giant Salamander Andrias davidianus (Amphibia:Urodela)

(2015) Josep Fortuny et al.   PLoS One

Are Cranial Biomechanical Simulation Data Linked to Known Diets in Extant Taxa? A Method for Applying Diet-Biomechanics Linkage Models to Infer Feeding Capability of Extinct Species

(2015) Zhijie Jack Tseng et al.   PLoS One

The Impact of Simplifications on the Performance of a Finite Element Model of aMacaca fascicularisCranium

(2014) Laura C. Fitton et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Clinal variation or validation of a subspecies? A case study of theGraptemys nigrinodacomplex (Testudines: Emydidae)

(2014) Joshua R. Ennen et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

EARLY EVOLUTION OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM AND POLYGYNY IN PINNIPEDIA

(2014) Thomas M. Cullen et al.   EVOLUTION

SELECTION FOR MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE UNDERLIES MULTIPLE CRANIAL OPTIMA IN NEW WORLD LEAF-NOSED BATS

(2014) Elizabeth R. Dumont et al.   EVOLUTION

Functional adaptation underpinned the evolutionary assembly of the earliest vertebrate skeleton

(2014) Duncan J. E. Murdock et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

How old is the cheetah skull shape? The case of Acinonyx pardinensis (Mammalia, Felidae)

(2014) Denis Geraads   GEOBIOS

Evolution in the sabre-tooth cat,Smilodon fatalis, in response to Pleistocene climate change

(2014) J. A. Meachen et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A review of paleontological finite element models and their validity

(2014) Jen A. Bright   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the locomotory ecology ofDeccanolestes, a eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of India

(2014) Anne-Claire Fabre et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Feeding habits of extant and fossil canids as determined by their skull geometry

(2014) C. Meloro et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals

(2014) Pamela G. Gill et al.   NATURE

Geometric morphometric analysis applied to theropod tracks from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Spain

(2014) Diego Castanera et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Finite element, occlusal, microwear and microstructural analyses indicate that conodont microstructure is adapted to dental function

(2014) Carlos Martínez-Pérez et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Morphological Evolution and Locomotor Performance of the Carnivoran Forelimb

(2014) Alberto Martín-Serra et al.   PLoS One

Evaluation of a New Method of Fossil Retrodeformation by Algorithmic Symmetrization: Crania of Papionins (Primates, Cercopithecidae) as a Test Case

(2014) Melissa Tallman et al.   PLoS One

Calibration uncertainty in molecular dating analyses: there is no substitute for the prior evaluation of time priors

(2014) R. C. M. Warnock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cranial biomechanics underpins high sauropod diversity in resource-poor environments

(2014) D. J. Button et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Feeding biomechanics in Acanthostega and across the fish-tetrapod transition

(2014) J. M. Neenan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Body size and premolar evolution in the early-middle eocene euprimates of Wyoming

(2013) Katrina E. Jones et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Are diminutive turtles miniaturized? The ontogeny of plastron shape in emydine turtles

(2013) Kenneth D. Angielczyk et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

In vivobone strain and finite element modeling of the mandible ofAlligator mississippiensis

(2013) Laura B. Porro et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Morphological and mechanical changes in juvenile red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) shells during ontogeny

(2013) Jennifer F. Fish et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Effects of asymmetry on the strength of the chelonian shell: A comparison of three species

(2013) Gabriel Rivera et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

A divergence dating analysis of turtles using fossil calibrations: an example of best practices

(2013) Walter G. Joyce et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull

(2013) N. Curtis et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Sequence-based molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of the American box turtles (Terrapene spp.) with support from DNA barcoding

(2013) Bradley T. Martin et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Implications of beak morphology for the evolutionary paleoecology of the megaherbivorous dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada

(2013) Jordan C. Mallon et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Random walk as a null model for high-dimensional morphometrics of fossil series: geometrical considerations

(2013) Fred L. Bookstein   PALEOBIOLOGY

Testing Adaptive Hypotheses of Convergence with Functional Landscapes: A Case Study of Bone-Cracking Hypercarnivores

(2013) Zhijie Jack Tseng   PLoS One

More than One Way of Being a Moa: Differences in Leg Bone Robustness Map Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories in Dinornithidae and Emeidae (Dinornithiformes)

(2013) Charlotte A. Brassey et al.   PLoS One

No known hominin species matches the expected dental morphology of the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans

(2013) A. Gomez-Robles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Incomplete specimens in geometric morphometric analyses

(2013) Jessica H. Arbour et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Modeling the Human Mandible Under Masticatory Loads: Which Input Variables are Important?

(2012) Flora Gröning et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Testing microstructural adaptation in the earliest dental tools

(2012) D. Jones et al.   Biology Letters

Virtual Functional Morphology: Novel Approaches to the Study of Craniofacial Form and Function

(2012) Paul O’Higgins et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Masticatory loadings and cranial deformation in Macaca fascicularis: a finite element analysis sensitivity study

(2012) L. C. Fitton et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Improving the validation of finite element models with quantitative full-field strain comparisons

(2012) F. Gröning et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Testing convergent and parallel adaptations in talpids humeral mechanical performance by means of geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis

(2012) P. Piras et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Virtual experiments, physical validation: dental morphology at the intersection of experiment and theory

(2012) P. S. L. Anderson et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Developing a musculoskeletal model of the primate skull: Predicting muscle activations, bite force, and joint reaction forces using multibody dynamics analysis and advanced optimisation methods

(2012) Junfen Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Toward integration of geometric morphometrics and computational biomechanics: New methods for 3D virtual reconstruction and quantitative analysis of Finite Element Models

(2012) W.C.H. Parr et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The sharpest tools in the box? Quantitative analysis of conodont element functional morphology

(2012) D. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Pareto Optimality, and the Geometry of Phenotype Space

(2012) O. Shoval et al.   SCIENCE

The Role of the Sutures in Biomechanical Dynamic Simulation of a Macaque Cranial Finite Element Model: Implications for the Evolution of Craniofacial Form

(2011) Qian Wang et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Craniofacial form and function in Metriorhynchidae (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia): modelling phenotypic evolution with maximum-likelihood methods

(2011) M. T. Young et al.   Biology Letters

FITTING MODELS OF CONTINUOUS TRAIT EVOLUTION TO INCOMPLETELY SAMPLED COMPARATIVE DATA USING APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION

(2011) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

Dimorphism in Shell Shape and Strength in Two Species of Emydid Turtle

(2011) Christine Vega et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Finite element modelling of squirrel, guinea pig and rat skulls: using geometric morphometrics to assess sensitivity

(2011) P. G. Cox et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Sensitivity and ex vivo validation of finite element models of the domestic pig cranium

(2011) Jen A. Bright et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Virtual anthropology meets biomechanics

(2011) Gerhard W. Weber et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

The effects of the periodontal ligament on mandibular stiffness: a study combining finite element analysis and geometric morphometrics

(2011) F. Gröning et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Finite element modeling of shell shape in the freshwater turtle Pseudemys concinna reveals a trade-off between mechanical strength and hydrodynamic efficiency

(2011) Gabriel Rivera et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Dating cryptodiran nodes: Origin and diversification of the turtle superfamily Testudinoidea

(2011) João M. Lourenço et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Biomechanics on the half shell: functional performance influences patterns of morphological variation in the emydid turtle carapace

(2011) C. Tristan Stayton   ZOOLOGY

The Structural Rigidity of the Cranium of Australopithecus africanus: Implications for Diet, Dietary Adaptations, and the Allometry of Feeding Biomechanics

(2010) David S. Strait et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Of arcs and vaults: the biomechanics of bone-cracking in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta)

(2010) JAIME B. TANNER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Discordant mitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles: implications for speciation and conservation

(2010) JOHN J. WIENS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION OF PLASTRON SHAPE IN EMYDINE TURTLES

(2010) Kenneth D. Angielczyk et al.   EVOLUTION

Finite element analysis of performance in the skulls of marmosets and tamarins

(2010) Elizabeth R. Dumont et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

In vivo bone strain and finite-element modeling of the craniofacial haft in catarrhine primates

(2010) Callum F. Ross et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Strain in the ostrich mandible during simulated pecking and validation of specimen-specific finite element models

(2010) Emily J. Rayfield   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Combining geometric morphometrics and functional simulation: an emerging toolkit for virtual functional analyses

(2010) Paul O’Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Comparison between in vivo and theoretical bite performance: Using multi-body modelling to predict muscle and bite forces in a reptile skull

(2010) N. Curtis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Cranial functional morphology of fossil dogs and adaptation for durophagy in Borophagus and Epicyon (Carnivora, Mammalia)

(2010) Zhijie Jack Tseng et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Modeling the effects of cingula structure on strain patterns and potential fracture in tooth enamel

(2010) Philip S.L. Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Evaluation of the generality and accuracy of a new mesh morphing procedure for the human femur

(2010) Lorenzo Grassi et al.   MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS

Finite element analysis (FEA): Applying an engineering method to functional morphology in anthropology and human biology

(2009) O. Panagiotopoulou   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Material properties of mandibular cortical bone in the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis

(2009) Uriel Zapata et al.   BONE

APPLICATION OF THIN-PLATE SPLINE TRANSFORMATIONS TO FINITE ELEMENT MODELS, OR, HOW TO TURN A BOG TURTLE INTO A SPOTTED TURTLE TO ANALYZE BOTH

(2009) C. Tristan Stayton   EVOLUTION

A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PHENOTYPIC TRAJECTORIES IN EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES

(2009) Dean C. Adams et al.   EVOLUTION

Advances in Geometric Morphometrics

(2009) Philipp Mitteroecker et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Shape and mechanics in thalattosuchian (Crocodylomorpha) skulls: implications for feeding behaviour and niche partitioning

(2009) S. E. Pierce et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Principles for the virtual reconstruction of hominin crania

(2009) Philipp Gunz et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Geometric morphometrics: recent applications to the study of evolution and development

(2009) A. M. Lawing et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A study on the structure and mechanical behavior of the Terrapene carolina carapace: A pathway to design bio-inspired synthetic composites

(2009) H. Rhee et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

Mechanical implications of pneumatic neck vertebrae in sauropod dinosaurs

(2009) D. Schwarz-Wings et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mechanical Function of a Complex Three-Dimensional Suture Joining the Bony Elements in the Shell of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle

(2008) Stefanie Krauss et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Cranial function in a late Miocene Dinocrocuta gigantea (Mammalia: Carnivora) revealed by comparative finite element analysis

(2008) ZHIJIE JACK TSENG   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Ecomorphological variation in shell shape of the freshwater turtle Pseudemys concinna inhabiting different aquatic flow regimes

(2008) G. Rivera   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Mesh-morphing algorithms for specimen-specific finite element modeling

(2008) Ian A. Sigal et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Patterns of morphospace occupation and mechanical performance in extant crocodilian skulls: A combined geometric morphometric and finite element modeling approach

(2008) Stephanie E. Pierce et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Requirements for comparing the performance of finite element models of biological structures

(2008) E.R. Dumont et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Cranial mechanics compared in extinct marsupial and extant African lions using a finite-element approach

(2007) S. Wroe   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Geometry and self-righting of turtles

(2007) G. Domokos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES