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A. Knapp, R. J. Knell, D. W. E. Hone
Summary: The study found support for predictions that indicate the parietal-squamosal frill of Protoceratops andrewsi may play an important role in socio-sexual selection, showing low integration, significantly higher rates of change in size and shape during growth and development, and higher morphological variance. Sexual dimorphism in shape was not supported, suggesting that sexual differences may be small.
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(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chotchuang Phombut, Supakit Rooppakhun, Bura Sindhupakorn
Summary: This study provides morphometric data of the Thai distal femur using a three-dimensional measurement method, which can be used for knee implant design for the Thai population. The study found significant differences in morphometric parameters between Thai males and females, as well as differences compared to the Korean population and Caucasians.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
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Engineering, Biomedical
David Garcia-Mato, Monica Garcia-Sevilla, Antonio R. Porras, Santiago Ochandiano, Juan V. Darriba-Alles, Roberto Garcia-Leal, Jose I. Salmeron, Marius George Linguraru, Javier Pascau
Summary: The handheld 3D photography technique is accurate for quantifying intraoperative cranial vault morphology and guiding metopic craniosynostosis surgical reconstruction. This noninvasive approach does not significantly increase surgical time, does not involve exposure to ionizing radiation, and serves as a valuable alternative to computed tomography imaging. This method can be integrated into the surgical workflow to assist in cranial vault remodeling and ensure optimal surgical outcomes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERY
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Giorgio Oliva, Vilma Pinchi, Ilenia Bianchi, Martina Focardi, Corrado Paganelli, Rinaldo Zotti, Domenico Dalessandri
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Anatomy & Morphology
A. Sarac-Hadzihalilovic, Z. Ajanovic, I. Hasanbegovic, S. Sljuka, M. Rakanovic-Todic, I. Aganovic, I. Prazina, S. Maleskic Kapo, R. Hadziselimovic
Summary: The study identified significant gender differences in the shape and size of the piriform aperture on 3D models of human skulls from the Bosnian population, which can be utilized for gender determination.
FOLIA MORPHOLOGICA
(2022)
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Surgery
Arne Estler, Gerd Groezinger, Eva Estler, Tobias Hepp, You-Shan Feng, Adrien Daigeler, Ana Cristina Seabra Robalo Gomes Jorge, Adelana Santos Stahl, Konstantin Nikolaou, Stephane Stahl
Summary: This study evaluated the relationship between age, sex, BMI, and cheek fat volume using MRI scans. It found that cheek fat volume increases with BMI but does not significantly change with age. There was no significant difference in cheek fat volume between men and women.
PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yameng Zhang, Lynne A. Schepartz
Summary: The study investigated three-dimensional morphological variation of the occipital bone between sexes and populations. Significant differences were observed in occipital morphology among populations, but little variance was explained by sex and ancestry. Other factors related to function and environment were suggested to be greater contributors to occipital variation.
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Nedzad Hadziomerovic, Ozan Gundemir, Faruk Tandir, Rizah Avdic, Muhamed Katica
Summary: This study described the morphological and morphometric features of the auditory ossicles in red foxes and provided important geometric data through analysis. The results showed that the anatomical organization of the auditory ossicles in red foxes is similar to that in other animals, which contributes to the field of auditory biology.
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Biology
Victor Kang, Frederik Pueffel, David Labonte
Summary: Contrary to the traditional assumption that mandible motion is constrained to rotation about a single fixed axis, this study reveals that insects have diverse mandible kinematics involving multiple rotational degrees of freedom, which are functionally significant.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Joseph Pollard, Gareth P. Alexander
Summary: This article gives a description of the intrinsic geometry of elastic distortions in three-dimensional nematic liquid crystals and establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for a set of functions to represent these distortions by describing how they couple to the curvature tensor. It is shown that, unlike in two dimensions, the first-order gradients of the director alone are not sufficient for full reconstruction of the director field from its intrinsic geometry and additional information about the second-order director gradients is necessary. Furthermore, various methods for reconstructing the director field from its intrinsic geometry are described, and the coupling between individual distortions and curvature is discussed from the perspective of Lie algebras and groups, along with the description of homogeneous spaces where pure modes of distortion can be realized.
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Petros Roussos, Anastasia Mitsea, Demetrios Halazonetis, Iosif Sifakakis
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Anatomy & Morphology
Andreas Johann Lang, Thomas Engler, Thomas Martin
Summary: The study combines dental topographic analysis and 3D geometric morphometrics to show that carnassial crown curvature decreases with higher carnassialization, and changes in tooth morphology are related to the size and shape of the carnassial. PC1 indicates that as carnassialization increases, the carnassial blade enlarges and the talonid basin reduces, while PC2 reveals morphological differences between different animal groups.
JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY
(2022)
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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Ahmad Ramdani, Pankaj Khanna, Sander De Jong, Gaurav Siddharth Gairola, Sherif Hanafy, Volker Vahrenkamp
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MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
(2022)
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Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Tania Jhamb, Ahmed Alsulaiman, Goli Parsi, Leslie Will, Melih Motro
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS AND DENTOFACIAL ORTHOPEDICS
(2023)
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Ecology
Matthew C. Mihlbachler, Christina I. Barron-Ortiz, Brian D. Rankin, Jessica M. Theodor
Summary: By quantifying mesowear in extant Ruminantia, the shape of cusps can be measured more precisely using a geometric morphometric approach, which improves the efficacy of mesowear as a dietary proxy.
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Archaeology
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Barbara Muehlemann, Ashot Margaryan, Peter de Barros Damgaard, Morten E. Allentoft, Lasse Vinner, Anders J. Hansen, Andrzej Weber, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Martyna Molak, Jette Arneborg, Wieslaw Bogdanowicz, Ceri Falys, Mikhail Sablin, Vaclav Smrcka, Sabine Sten, Kadicha Tashbaeva, Niels Lynnerup, Martin Sikora, Derek J. Smith, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Christian Drosten, Karl-Goran Sjogren, Kristian Kristiansen, Eske Willerslev, Terry C. Jones
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(2018)
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Geography, Physical
Keiko Kitagawa, Marie-Anne Julien, Oleksandra Krotova, Alexander A. Bessudnov, Mikail V. Sablin, Dmytro Kiosak, Natalia Leonova, Boris Plohenko, Marylene Patou-Mathis
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
(2018)
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Geography, Physical
Dorothee G. Drucker, Rhiannon E. Stevens, Mietje Germonpre, Mikhail V. Sablin, Stephane Pean, Herve Bocherens
QUATERNARY RESEARCH
(2018)
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Biology
Morgane Ollivier, Anne Tresset, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Stephanie Brehard, Adrian Balasescu, Marjan Mashkour, Adina Boroneant, Maud Pionnier-Capitan, Ophelie Lebrasseur, Rose-Marie Arbogast, Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Karyne Debue, Rivka Rabinovich, Mikhail V. Sablin, Greger Larson, Catherine Hanni, Christophe Hitte, Jean-Denis Vigne
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Anthropology
Rob Dinnis, Alexander Bessudnov, Natasha Reynolds, Thibaut Deviese, Abi Pate, Mikhail Sablin, Andrei Sinitsyn, Thomas Higham
JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
(2019)
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Biology
Carly Ameen, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Sarah K. Brown, Anna Linderholm, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, Ophelie Lebrasseur, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Zachary T. Lounsberry, Audrey T. Lin, Martin Appelt, Lutz Bachmann, Matthew Betts, Kate Britton, John Darwent, Rune Dietz, Merete Fredholm, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Olga I. Goriunova, Bjarne Gronnow, James Haile, Jon Hallsteinn Hallsson, Ramona Harrison, Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen, Rick Knecht, Robert J. Losey, Edouard Masson-MacLean, Thomas H. McGovern, Ellen McManus-Fry, Morten Meldgaard, Aslaug Midtdal, Madonna L. Moss, Iurii G. Nikitin, Tatiana Nomokonova, Albina Hulda Palsdottir, Angela Perri, Aleksandr N. Popov, Lisa Rankin, Joshua D. Reuther, Mikhail Sablin, Anne Lisbeth Schmidt, Scott Shirar, Konrad Smiarowski, Christian Sonne, Mary C. Stiner, Mitya Vasyukov, Catherine F. West, Gro Birgit Ween, Sanne Eline Wennerberg, Oystein Wiig, James Woollett, Love Dalen, Anders J. Hansen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Benjamin N. Sacks, Laurent Frantz, Greger Larson, Keith Dobney, Christyann M. Darwent, Allowen Evin
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(2019)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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Summary: Domestic dogs display a 40-fold size difference between breeds, with body size being regulated by multiple genes. Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) is the main regulator, controlling approximately 15% of the body size variation. By analyzing genome sequences from different species, researchers identified a variant in an antisense long non-coding RNA (IGF1-AS) that interacts with the IGF1 gene, resulting in the dominance of derived mutation in modern wolves and large domestic breeds.
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Anthropology
Laetitia Demay, Marylene Patou-Mathis, Gennadyi A. Khlopachev, Mikhail V. Sablin, Carole Vercoutere
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Zoology
O. P. Bachura, P. A. Kosintsev
ZOOLOGICHESKY ZHURNAL
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marta Pereira Verdugo, Victoria E. Mullin, Amelie Scheu, Valeria Mattiangeli, Kevin G. Daly, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Andrew J. Hare, Joachim Burger, Matthew J. Collins, Ron Kehati, Paula Hesse, Deirdre Fulton, Eberhard W. Sauer, Fatemeh A. Mohaseb, Hossein Davoudi, Roya Khazaeli, Johanna Lhuillier, Claude Rapin, Saeed Ebrahimi, Mutalib Khasanov, S. M. Farhad Vahidi, David E. MacHugh, Okan Ertugrul, Chaido Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Adamantios Sampson, George Kazantzis, Ioannis Kontopoulos, Jelena Bulatovic, Ivana Stojanovic, Abdesalam Mikdad, Norbert Benecke, Joerg Linstaedter, Mikhail Sablin, Robin Bendrey, Lionel Gourichon, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Marjan Mashkour, David Orton, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Matthew D. Teasdale, Daniel G. Bradley
Meeting Abstract
Anatomy & Morphology
M. B. Germonpre, P. Galeta, M. Sablin, M. Laznickova-Galetova
JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY
(2019)
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Zoology
Olga P. Bachura, Pavel A. Kosintsev, Tatyana V. Lobanova
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(2019)
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Archaeology
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Archaeology
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