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Journal articles
, 2017, 'Voyaging into the third dimension: A perspective on virtual methods and their application to studies of juvenile sex estimation and the ontogeny of sexual dimorphism', Forensic Science International, 278, pp. 32 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.06.016
, 2017, 'Quantification of 3D curvature in the iliac crest: Ontogeny and implications for sex determination in juveniles', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162, pp. 255 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23114
, 2016, 'Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats', Alcheringa, 40, pp. 509 - 524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1196434
, 2016, 'Erratum: Corrigendum: A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 32054, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep32054
, 2016, 'Comparative anatomy of the osseous inner ear of dog breeds, dingoes and wolves. A study of intraspecific variation and domestication', Mammalian Biology, 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2016.07.051
, 2016, 'A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 26911, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep26911
, 2016, 'Cranial Shape and the Modularity of Hybridization in Dingoes and Dogs; Hybridization Does Not Spell the End for Native Morphology', Evolutionary Biology, 43, pp. 171 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-016-9371-x
, 2016, 'Moa diet fits the bill: Virtual reconstruction incorporating mummified remains and prediction of biomechanical performance in avian giants', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 283, pp. 20152043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2043
, 2016, 'Earliest known record of a hypercarnivorous dasyurid (Marsupialia), from newly discovered carbonates beyond the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north Queensland', Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, pp. 137 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.13
, 2015, 'A virtual geometric morphometric approach to the quantification of long bone bilateral asymmetry and cross-sectional shape', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 158, pp. 541 - 556, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22809
, 2015, 'Evolution of opercle shape in cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika-Adaptive trait interactions in extant and extinct species flocks', Scientific Reports, 5, pp. 16909, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep16909
, 2015, 'Evolution of neck vertebral shape and neck retraction at the transition to modern turtles: An integrated geometric morphometric approach', Systematic Biology, 64, pp. 187 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syu072
, 2015, 'Cranial and mandibular shape variation in the genus Carollia (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Colombia: Biogeographic patterns and morphological modularity', Peerj, 2015, pp. e1197, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1197
, 2015, 'Shape, size, and maturity trajectories of the human ilium', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156, pp. 19 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22625
, 2014, 'Quantifying evolutionary development using non-model organisms: Integrating morphology, metrical frameworks, and gene expression', Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 322, pp. 555 - 557, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.22603
, 2014, 'Cranial Suture Closure Patterns in Sciuridae: Heterochrony and Modularity', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 21, pp. 257 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-013-9242-5
, 2014, 'Virtual reconstruction and prey size preference in the mid Cenozoic thylacinid, Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia)', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e93088, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093088
, 2013, 'Regionalization of the axial skeleton in the 'ambush predator' guild - Are there developmental rules underlying body shape evolution in ray-finned fishes?', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-265
, 2013, 'Diversity and body size in giant caviomorphs (Rodentia) from the northern Neotropics - A study of femoral variation', Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, pp. 1449 - 1456, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.780952
, 2013, 'Ecomorphological disparity in an adaptive radiation: Opercular bone shape and stable isotopes in Antarctic icefishes', Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 3166 - 3182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.708
, 2013, 'On the Unique Perspective of Paleontology in the Study of Developmental Evolution and Biases', Biological Theory, 8, pp. 293 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-013-0115-1
, 2013, 'A QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS IN OPERCLE BONE SHAPE IN SAURICHTHYS (ACTINOPTERYGII: SAURICHTHYIDAE)', Palaeontology, 56, pp. 901 - 915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12026
, 2013, 'Allometric disparity in rodent evolution', Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 971 - 984, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.521
, 2013, 'Geographic variation in the greater Japanese shrew-mole, Urotrichus talpoides: Combining morphological and chromosomal patterns', Mammalian Biology, 78, pp. 267 - 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2012.09.003
, 2013, 'The contribution of developmental palaeontology to extensions of evolutionary theory', Acta Zoologica, 94, pp. 254 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6395.2011.00539.x
, 2012, 'Testing a developmental model in the fossil record: molar proportions in South American ungulates', Paleobiology, 38, pp. 308 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f1468
, 2011, 'Comparison of prenatal and postnatal ontogeny: cranial allometry in the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio)', Journal of Mammalogy, 92, pp. 407 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1644/10-mamm-a-209.1
, 2011, 'Evolution and Phylogenetic Signal of Growth Trajectories: The Case of Chelid Turtles', Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B-Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 316B, pp. 50 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.21380
, 2011, 'On the reliability of a geometric morphometric approach to sex determination: A blind test of six criteria of the juvenile ilium', Forensic Science International, 206, pp. 35 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.06.014
, 2010, 'Diversity trends and their ontogenetic basis: an exploration of allometric disparity in rodents', Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 277, pp. 1227 - 1234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1958
, 2010, 'Skeletogenesis and sequence heterochrony in rodent evolution, with particular emphasis on the African striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio (Mammalia)', Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 10, pp. 243 - 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-010-0020-4
, 2009, 'Heterochrony and patterns of cranial suture closure in hystricognath rodents', Journal of Anatomy, 214, pp. 339 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.01031.x
, 2008, 'Morphometric criteria for sexing juvenile human skeletons using the ilium', Journal of Forensic Sciences, 53, pp. 269 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00656.x
Conference Papers
, 2019, 'Allometric Evolution on Short Time Scales', in JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, Wiley, Prague, pp. S7 - S7, presented at International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Prague, 21 July 2019
, 2019, 'The Morphogenetic Basis of Mammalian Flight: Allometric Trajectories and Ossification Heterochronies in Prenatal Skeletogenesis of Bats', in JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, Wiley, Prague, pp. S39 - S39, presented at International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Prague, 21 July 2019
, 2019, 'A Multiscale Approach to Explore the Postnatal Development of the Largest Subterranean Scratch-digging Mammal, Bathyergus suillus (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)', in JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, WILEY, pp. S183 - S184, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000470768500560&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2019, 'Sex differences in the patterning of age-related bone loss in the human hallucal metatarsal in Post-medieval rural and urban populations', in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, WILEY, OH, Cleveland, pp. 271 - 271, presented at 88th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists (AAPA), OH, Cleveland, 27 March 2019 - 30 March 2019, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000458409603120&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2017, 'Geometric morphometric analysis of variation in human hallucal metatarsal periosteal and endosteal shape in rural and urban populations', in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, WILEY, LA, New Orleans, pp. 412 - 412, presented at 86th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists (AAPA), LA, New Orleans, 19 April 2017 - 22 April 2017, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000423063104348&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2012, 'PATTERNS OF CRANIOFACIAL SHAPE CHANGE IN THE EXTINCT SPECIES FLOCK OF THE ACTINOPTERYGIAN FISH GENUS SAURICHTHYS: PALAEOBIOLOGICAL AND PALAEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS AND A COMPARISON WITH EXTANT SPECIES FLOCKS', in JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, NC, N Carolina Museum Nat Sci, Raleigh, pp. 195 - 195, presented at 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society-of-Vertebrate-Paleontology, NC, N Carolina Museum Nat Sci, Raleigh, 17 October 2012 - 20 October 2012, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000313496400635&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2009, 'DIVERSITY TRENDS AND THEIR ONTOGENETIC BASIS: AN EXPLORATION OF ALLOMETRIC DISPARITY IN RODENTS', in JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, SOC VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, pp. 202A - 202A, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207952400747&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Conference Presentations
, 2018, 'Postcranial modularity, integration and disparity in the prenatal development of bats (Chiroptera)', presented at 18th Australasian Bat Society Conference, Richmond, Sydney, 03 April 2018 - 06 April 2018
, 2017, 'The evolution of nasal chamber shape in Old World leaf-nosed and trident bats using virtual modelling and 3D geometric morphometrics', presented at 16th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Queenstown, Queenstown, New Zealand, 01 October 2017 - 07 October 2017
, 2016, 'Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats', presented at 17th International Bat Research Conference, 01 August 2016 - 06 August 2016
Conference Abstracts
, 2019, 'Peculiar Cranial Morphology in Nasal-Emitting Bats (Chiroptera: Rhinonycteridae) from Miocene Forests in Northern Australia', in Journal of Morphology, Wiley, Vol. 280, pp. S38 - S38, presented at International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology
, 2019, 'An Extraordinary Enigmatic Structure in the Middle Ear of Acrobatid Marsupials', in JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 280, pp. S132 - S132
, 2016, 'Functional and morphometric analysis of a middle Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) skeleton from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', in PeerJ Preprints, PeerJ, UNSW, Sydney, presented at Riversleigh Symposium 2016, UNSW, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3393v1
Working Papers
, 2019, Decoupled morphological and biomechanical evolution and diversification of the wing in bats, http://dx.doi.org10.32942/osf.io/k3y5f, https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/k3y5f
Preprints
, 2023, The Australasian dingo archetype: De novo chromosome-length genome assembly, DNA methylome, and cranial morphology., http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.26.525801
, 2022, Exploring associations between presence of skeletal indicators of disease and sub-adult mortality, http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zf4j7
, 2022, The vocal apparatus of bats: an understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation?, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/8pfjh