The Origin and Evolutionary Consequences of Skeletal Traits Shaped by Embryonic Muscular Activity, from Basal Theropods to Modern Birds

Limb proportions show developmental plasticity in response to embryo movement

(2017) A. S. Pollard et al.   Scientific Reports

How to Make a Bird Skull: Major Transitions in the Evolution of the Avian Cranium, Paedomorphosis, and the Beak as a Surrogate Hand

(2016) Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The Role of Hox in Pisiform and Calcaneus Growth Plate Formation and the Nature of the Zeugopod/Autopod Boundary

(2016) Philip L. Reno et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Digits and fin rays share common developmental histories

(2016) Tetsuya Nakamura et al.   NATURE

Hand/foot splitting and the ‘re-evolution’ of mesopodial skeletal elements during the evolution and radiation of chameleons

(2015) Raul E. Diaz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

On the development of the patella

(2015) S. Eyal et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The evolution of developmental modes in the new avian phylogenetic tree

(2015) João Francisco Botelho et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Altriciality and the Evolution of Toe Orientation in Birds

(2015) João Francisco Botelho et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Meier-Gorlin syndrome

(2015) Sonja A. de Munnik et al.   Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Skeletal plasticity in response to embryonic muscular activity underlies the development and evolution of the perching digit of birds

(2015) João Francisco Botelho et al.   Scientific Reports

Low ecological disparity in Early Cretaceous birds

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

Digit patterning is controlled by a Bmp-Sox9-Wnt Turing network modulated by morphogen gradients

(2014) J. Raspopovic et al.   SCIENCE

New Developmental Evidence Clarifies the Evolution of Wrist Bones in the Dinosaur–Bird Transition

(2014) João Francisco Botelho et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Gene loss, thermogenesis, and the origin of birds

(2013) Stuart A. Newman et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Tendon-bone attachment unit is formed modularly by a distinct pool of Scx - and Sox9 -positive progenitors

(2013) Einat Blitz et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Introduction to the Skeleton of Hummingbirds (Aves: Apodiformes, Trochilidae) in Functional and Phylogenetic Contexts

(2013) Richard L. Zusi   ORNITHOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

An embryonic enantiornithine bird and associated eggs from the cretaceous of Mongolia

(2013) E. N. Kurochkin et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

A regulatory network of two galectins mediates the earliest steps of avian limb skeletal morphogenesis

(2011) Ramray Bhat et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Statistical approach for inferring ecology of Mesozoic birds

(2011) Alyssa Bell et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Mechanobiology of embryonic skeletal development: Insights from animal models

(2010) Niamh C. Nowlan et al.   BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH PART C-EMBRYO TODAY-REVIEWS

The Evolution of HoxD-11 Expression in the Bird Wing: Insights from Alligator mississippiensis

(2008) Alexander O. Vargas et al.   PLoS One

Avian Paternal Care Had Dinosaur Origin

(2008) David J. Varricchio et al.   SCIENCE