Facing the facts: adaptive trade‐offs along body size ranges determine mammalian craniofacial scaling

DR Mitchell, E Sherratt, V Weisbecker - Biological Reviews, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The mammalian cranium (skull without lower jaw) is representative of mammalian diversity
and is thus of particular interest to mammalian biologists across disciplines. One widely …

[HTML][HTML] Modelando la varianza de la forma: Morfometría geométrica aplicaciones en biología evolutiva

HA Benítez, TA Püschel - International Journal of Morphology, 2014‏ - SciELO Chile
La comparación de caracteres anatómicos entre organismos ha sido un elemento central de
la biología comparada. Históricamente, la clasificación taxonómica y la comprensión de la …

Evolutionary covariation in geometric morphometric data: analyzing integration, modularity, and allometry in a phylogenetic context

CP Klingenberg, J Marugán-Lobón - Systematic biology, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
Quantifying integration and modularity of evolutionary changes in morphometric traits is
crucial for understanding how organismal shapes evolve. For this purpose, comparative …

Evaluating modularity in morphometric data: challenges with the RV coefficient and a new test measure

DC Adams - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Modularity describes the case where patterns of trait covariation are unevenly dispersed
across traits. Specifically, trait correlations are high and concentrated within subsets of …

A method for assessing phylogenetic least squares models for shape and other high-dimensional multivariate data

DC Adams - Evolution, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Studies of evolutionary correlations commonly use phylogenetic regression (ie, independent
contrasts and phylogenetic generalized least squares) to assess trait covariation in a …

Mechanics of bite force production and its relationship to diet in bats

SE Santana, ER Dumont, JL Davis - Functional Ecology, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
In vertebrates, bite force is a measure of whole organism performance that is associated with
both cranial morphology and dietary ecology. Mechanistic studies of bite force production …

Assessing trait covariation and morphological integration on phylogenies using evolutionary covariance matrices

DC Adams, RN Felice - PloS one, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Morphological integration describes the degree to which sets of organismal traits covary with
one another. Morphological covariation may be evaluated at various levels of biological …

Diet, bite force and skull morphology in the generalist rodent morphotype

R Maestri, BD Patterson, R Fornel… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
For many vertebrate species, bite force plays an important functional role. Ecological
characteristics of a species' niche, such as diet, are often associated with bite force. Previous …

Dietary hardness, loading behavior, and the evolution of skull form in bats

SE Santana, IR Grosse, ER Dumont - Evolution, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
The morphology and biomechanics of the vertebrate skull reflect the physical properties of
diet and behaviors used in food acquisition and processing. We use phyllostomid bats, the …

Evolution of cranial shape in caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

E Sherratt, DJ Gower, CP Klingenberg, M Wilkinson - Evolutionary Biology, 2014‏ - Springer
Insights into morphological diversification can be obtained from the ways the species of a
clade occupy morphospace. Projecting a phylogeny into morphospace provides estimates of …