ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION OF PLASTRON SHAPE IN EMYDINE TURTLES

Evolution of Thermal Physiology in Liolaemus Lizards: Adaptation, Phylogenetic Inertia, and Niche Tracking

(2009) Antonieta Labra et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Assessing what is needed to resolve a molecular phylogeny: simulations and empirical data from emydid turtles

(2009) Phillip Q Spinks et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

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

Evolution of the Turtle Body Plan by the Folding and Creation of New Muscle Connections

(2009) H. Nagashima et al.   SCIENCE

Conflicting Mitochondrial and Nuclear Phylogenies for the Widely Disjunct Emys (Testudines: Emydidae) Species Complex, and What They Tell Us about Biogeography and Hybridization

(2009) Phillip Q. Spinks et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Environmental media and shape asymmetry: a case study on turtle shells

(2008) GABRIEL RIVERA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Developmental Dynamics and G-Matrices: Can Morphometric Spaces be Used to Model Phenotypic Evolution?

(2008) P. David Polly   Evolutionary Biology

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

(2008) G. Rivera   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

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

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE

Genetic basis of fitness differences in natural populations

(2008) Hans Ellegren et al.   NATURE

Hierarchy and the reconstruction of evolutionary trends: evidence for constraints on the evolution of body size in terrestrial caniform carnivorans (Mammalia)

(2008) John A. Finarelli   PALEOBIOLOGY

Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods

(2008) P. M. Novack-Gottshall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Caveats on the Use of Fossil Calibrations for Molecular Dating: A Comment on Near et al.

(2007) James F. Parham et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Geometry and self-righting of turtles

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