Opportunities and challenges in applying AI to evolutionary morphology

Y He, JM Mulqueeney, EC Watt… - Integrative …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize many aspects of science, including the
study of evolutionary morphology. While classical AI methods such as principal component …

[HTML][HTML] PITX2 expression and Neanderthal introgression in HS3ST3A1 contribute to variation in tooth dimensions in modern humans

Q Li, P Faux, EW Winchester, G Yang, Y Chen… - Current Biology, 2025 - cell.com
Dental morphology varies greatly throughout evolution, including in the human lineage, but
little is known about the biology of this variation. Here, we use multiomics analyses to …

Comparison of dental topography of marmosets and tamarins (Callitrichidae) to other platyrrhine primates using a novel freeware pipeline

D de Vries, MC Janiak, R Batista, JP Boubli… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2024 - Springer
Dental topographic metrics (DTMs), which quantify different aspects of the shape of teeth,
are powerful tools for studying dietary adaptation and evolution in mammals. Current DTM …

Approaches to studying endocranial morphology in Euarchontoglires: Assessing sources of error for a novel and biologically informative set of landmarks

MM Lang, R Allemand, C López-Aguirre… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Despite its importance for making biologically meaningful conclusions in geometric
morphometric analyses, landmark error is inconsistently assessed. We evaluate a set of 30 …

A conserved regulation of cell expansion underlies notochord mechanics, spine morphogenesis, and endochondral bone lengthening

B Voigt, K Frazier, D Yazdi, P Gontarz, B Zhang… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cell size is a key contributor to tissue morphogenesis. As a notable example, growth plate
hypertrophic chondrocytes use cellular biogenesis and disproportionate fluid uptake to …