A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals

F Alfieri, L Botton-Divet, J Wölfer, JA Nyakatura… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Eco-morphological convergence, ie, similar phenotypes evolved in ecologically convergent
taxa, naturally reproduces a common-garden experiment since it allows researchers to keep …

Divergence time and environmental similarity predict the strength of morphological convergence in stick and leaf insects

RP Boisseau, S Bradler, DJ Emlen - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025 - pnas.org
Independent evolution of similar traits in lineages inhabiting similar environments
(convergent or repeated evolution) is often taken as evidence for adaptation by natural …

Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels

SM Keogh, JM Pfeiffer, AM Simons, SM Edie - Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Frequent and strong morphological convergence suggests that determinism tends to
supersede historical contingencies in evolutionary radiations. For many lineages living …

The role of many-to-one map** of vertebral form to function in Psittaciform tripedal locomotion

AR Stuart, MC Granatosky, RN Felice, RD Marek - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Parrots highlight the functional diversity of the avian neck by contributing to a range of
behaviors, including arboreal locomotion. The parrot neck is used alongside the beak and …