Homeotic transformations reflect departure from the mammalian ‘rule of seven’ cervical vertebrae in sloths: inferences on the Hox code and morphological modularity of the mammalian neck

Differential scaling patterns of vertebrae and the evolution of neck length in mammals

(2017) Patrick Arnold et al.   EVOLUTION

Barn owls maximize head rotations by a combination of yawing and rolling in functionally diverse regions of the neck

(2017) Markus Krings et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Morphological disparity, conservatism, and integration in the canine lower cervical spine: Insights into mammalian neck function and regionalization

(2016) Patrick Arnold et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Functional cervicothoracic boundary modified by anatomical shifts in the neck of giraffes

(2016) Megu Gunji et al.   Royal Society Open Science

New insights into the vertebralHoxcode of archosaurs

(2015) Christine Böhmer et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Aberrant back muscle function correlates with intramuscular architecture of dorsovertebral muscles in two-toed sloths

(2015) John A. Nyakatura et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

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

(2015) Jason J. Head et al.   NATURE

Correlation betweenHoxcode and vertebral morphology in archosaurs

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

Breaking constraint: axial patterning inTrichechus(Mammalia: Sirenia)

(2014) Emily A. Buchholtz et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The Cervical Spine of the American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata pratincola): I. Anatomy of the Vertebrae and Regionalization in Their S-Shaped Arrangement

(2014) Markus Krings et al.   PLoS One

Comparative Morphological Examinations of the Cervical and Thoracic Vertebrae and Related Spinal Nerves in the Two-Toed Sloth

(2013) Hideki Endo et al.   MAMMAL STUDY

Hoxa-5 acts in segmented somites to regulate cervical vertebral morphology

(2013) Jessica W. Chen et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

Crossing the frontier: a hypothesis for the origins of meristic constraint in mammalian axial patterning

(2013) Emily A. Buchholtz   ZOOLOGY

Fixed cervical count and the origin of the mammalian diaphragm

(2012) Emily A. Buchholtz et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Gene Functional Trade-Offs and the Evolution of Pleiotropy

(2012) Frédéric Guillaume et al.   GENETICS

The many faces of pleiotropy

(2012) Annalise B. Paaby et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Functional morphology of the muscular sling at the pectoral girdle in tree sloths: convergent morphological solutions to new functional demands?

(2011) John A. Nyakatura et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The Convergent Evolution of Suspensory Posture and Locomotion in Tree Sloths

(2011) John A. Nyakatura   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

The pleiotropic structure of the genotype–phenotype map: the evolvability of complex organisms

(2011) Günter P. Wagner et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Breaking evolutionary and pleiotropic constraints in mammals: On sloths, manatees and homeotic mutations

(2011) Irma Varela-Lasheras et al.   EvoDevo

Hox genes and regional patterning of the vertebrate body plan

(2010) Moises Mallo et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Homeobox genes d11–d13 and a13 control mouse autopod cortical bone and joint formation

(2010) Pablo Villavicencio-Lorini et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes

(2010) J. Muller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning

(2010) L. Hautier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pleiotropy, apparent stabilizing selection and uncovering fitness optima

(2010) Katrina McGuigan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Anatomical transformation in mammals: developmental origin of aberrant cervical anatomy in tree sloths

(2009) Emily A. Buchholtz et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT