Functional morphology of plesiadapiform distal phalanges and implications for the evolution of arboreality in Paleogene euarchontans

Functional morphology of vertebrate claws investigated using functionally based categories and multiple morphological metrics

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Inferring lifestyle for Aves and Theropoda: A model based on curvatures of extant avian ungual bones

(2020) Savannah Elizabeth Cobb et al.   PLoS One

The Central Role of Small Vertical Substrates for the Origin of Grasping in Early Primates

(2020) Severine Toussaint et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Not all fine-branch locomotion is equal: Grasping morphology determines locomotor performance on narrow supports

(2020) Jesse W. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Using manual ungual morphology to predict substrate use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the description of a new species

(2020) Xavier A. Jenkins et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Skeletal morphology of the early Paleocene plesiadapiform Torrejonia wilsoni (Euarchonta, Palaechthonidae)

(2019) Stephen G.B. Chester et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Raptor talon shape and biomechanical performance are controlled by relative prey size but not by allometry

(2019) Leah R. Tsang et al.   Scientific Reports

Finite element and morphological analysis in extant mammals’ claws and quaternary sloths’ ungual phalanges

(2019) Santiago Patiño et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Convergent evolution of claw shape in a transcontinental lizard radiation

(2019) Simon Baeckens et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

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(2018) Emmanuel Paradis et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Oldest evidence for grooming claws in euprimates

(2018) Doug M. Boyer et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Foot postures and grasping of free-ranging Sunda colugos ( Galeopterus variegatus ) in West Java, Indonesia

(2018) Dionisios Youlatos et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Claw morphometrics in monitor lizards: Variable substrate and habitat use correlate to shape diversity within a predator guild

(2018) Domenic C. D'Amore et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Evolution of Body Mass in Bats: Insights from a Large Supermatrix Phylogeny

(2018) Reyna Leticia Moyers Arévalo et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Evolution of plesiadapid mammals (Eutheria, Euarchonta, Plesiadapiformes) in Europe across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary: implications for phylogeny, biochronology and scenarios of dispersal

(2018) Martin Jehle et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Phenotypic integration between claw and toepad traits promotes microhabitat specialization in the Anolis adaptive radiation

(2018) Michael L. Yuan et al.   EVOLUTION

Investigating Difficult Nodes in the Placental Mammal Tree with Expanded Taxon Sampling and Thousands of Ultraconserved Elements

(2017) Jacob A. Esselstyn et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Plantar pressure distribution of ostrich during locomotion on loose sand and solid ground

(2017) Rui Zhang et al.   PeerJ

Oldest skeleton of a plesiadapiform provides additional evidence for an exclusively arboreal radiation of stem primates in the Palaeocene

(2017) Stephen G. B. Chester et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Cranial anatomy of Paleogene Micromomyidae and implications for early primate evolution

(2016) Jonathan I. Bloch et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution

(2016) X. Ni et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the sister group to primates

(2016) V. C. Mason et al.   Science Advances

The position of tree shrews in the mammalian tree: Comparing multi-gene analyses with phylogenomic results leaves monophyly of Euarchonta doubtful

(2015) Xuming ZHOU et al.   Integrative Zoology

Morphological Variation of the Forelimb and Claw in Neotropical Sigmodontine Rodents (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

(2015) M. J. Tulli et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Oldest known euarchontan tarsals and affinities of PaleocenePurgatoriusto Primates

(2015) Stephen G. B. Chester et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic relationships of dasyuromorphian marsupials revisited

(2015) Michael Westerman et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Functional morphology of the hallucal metatarsal with implications for inferring grasping ability in extinct primates

(2014) Katherine E. Goodenberger et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Each flying fox on its own branch: A phylogenetic tree for Pteropus and related genera (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)

(2014) Francisca C. Almeida et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Morphological and functional diversity in therizinosaur claws and the implications for theropod claw evolution

(2014) S. Lautenschlager   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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(2013) Doug M. Boyer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Getting a grip on tetrapod grasping: form, function, and evolution

(2013) Diego Sustaita et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Systematics of Paleogene Micromomyidae (Euarchonta, Primates) from North America

(2013) Stephen G.B. Chester et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution

(2013) Xijun Ni et al.   NATURE

Evolution and Allometry of Calcaneal Elongation in Living and Extinct Primates

(2013) Doug M. Boyer et al.   PLoS One

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

Updating the evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia): a new species-level supertree complete with divergence time estimates

(2012) Katrin Nyakatura et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Evaluating the Phylogenetic Position of Chinese Tree Shrew (Tupaia belangeri chinensis) Based on Complete Mitochondrial Genome: Implication for Using Tree Shrew as an Alternative Experimental Animal to Primates in Biomedical Research

(2012) Ling Xu et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Pedal Claw Curvature in Birds, Lizards and Mesozoic Dinosaurs – Complicated Categories and Compensating for Mass-Specific and Phylogenetic Control

(2012) Aleksandra V. Birn-Jeffery et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for a convergent slowdown in primate molecular rates and its implications for the timing of early primate evolution

(2012) M. E. Steiper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Narrow Niche hypothesis: Gray squirrels shed new light on primate origins

(2011) Joseph D. Orkin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Morphological Correlates of the Grooming Claw in Distal Phalanges of Platyrrhines and Other Primates: A Preliminary Study

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

Sex differences in the locomotor ecology of a gliding mammal, the Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus)

(2011) Greg Byrnes et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Molecular phylogeny of treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia) and the timescale of diversification in Southeast Asia

(2011) Trina E. Roberts et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Evolutionary morphology of the Tenrecoidea (Mammalia) carpal complex

(2010) JUSTINE A. SALTON et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

LOCOMOTOR PATTERNS IN PRIMATES

(2010) E. H. ASHTON et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria), and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals

(2010) MARY T. SILCOX et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The structure of the cornified claw sheath in the domesticated cat (Felis catus): implications for the claw-shedding mechanism and the evolution of cornified digital end organs

(2009) Dominique G. Homberger et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The interplay between claw morphology and microhabitat use in neotropical iguanian lizards

(2009) M.J. Tulli et al.   ZOOLOGY

Intrinsic hand proportions of euarchontans and other mammals: Implications for the locomotor behavior of plesiadapiforms

(2008) E. Christopher Kirk et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in living and extinct rodents

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