By Dr Laura A. B. Wilson

Journal articles

Archer M; Hand SJ; Black KH; Beck RMD; Arena DA; Wilson LAB; Kealy S; Hung TT; Wijaya L, 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

Parr W; Wilson L; Colman N; Crowther M; Wroe S; Letnic MI, 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

Attard MRG; Wilson LAB; Worthy TH; Scofield P; Johnston P; Parr WCH; Wroe S; Wijaya L, 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

Archer M; Christmas O; Hand SJ; Black KH; Creaser P; Godthelp HJ; Cohen DR; Graham IT; Arena DA; Anderson C; Soares G; Machin N; Beck RMD; Wilson L; Myers TJ; Gillespie AK; Khoo B; Travouillon KJ; Wijaya L, 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

Wilson LAB; Humphrey LT; Wijaya L, 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

Wilson LAB; Colombo M; Sánchez-Villagra MR; Salzburger W; Wijaya L, 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

Werneburg I; Wilson LAB; Parr WCH; Joyce WG; Wijaya L, 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

López-Aguirre C; Pérez-Torres J; Wilson LAB; Lopez-Aguirre C; Wijaya L, 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

Wilson LAB; Ives R; Cardoso HFV; Humphrey LT; Wijaya L, 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

Wilson LAB; Werneburg I, 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

Wilson LAB, 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

Attard MRG; Parr W; Wilson LAB; Archer M; Hand SJ; Rogers TL; Wroe S; Wijaya L, 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

Maxwell EE; Wilson LAB, 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

Geiger M; Wilson LAB; Costeur L; Sánchez R; Sánchez-Villagra MR, 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

Wilson LAB; Colombo M; Hanel R; Salzburger W; Sánchez-Villagra MR, 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

Urdy S; Wilson LAB; Haug JT; Sánchez-Villagra MR, 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

Wilson LAB; Furrer H; Stockar R; Sanchez-Villagra MR, 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

Wilson LAB, 2013, 'Allometric disparity in rodent evolution', Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 971 - 984, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.521

Wilson LAB, 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

Wilson LAB, 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

Wilson LAB; Madden RH; Kay RF; Sanchez-Villagra MR, 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

Wilson LAB, 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

Wilson LAB; Sanchez-Villagra MR, 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

Wilson LAB; Cardoso HFV; Humphrey LT, 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

Wilson LAB; Sanchez-Villagra MR, 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

Wilson LAB; Schradin C; Mitgutsch C; Galliari FC; Mess A; Sanchez-Villagra MR, 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

Wilson LAB; Sanchez-Villagra MR, 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

Wilson LA; MacLeod N; Humphrey LT, 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

Wilson L, 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

Lopez-Aguirre C; Wilson L; Koyabu D; Hand S, 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

Montoya-Sanhueza G; Wilson LAB; Chinsamy A, 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

Wilson LAB; De Groote I; Humphrey LT, 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

Wilson LAB; De Groote I; Humphrey LT, 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

Black KH; Travouillon KJ; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Wilson LAB, 2015, 'Functional and geometric morphometric analysis of a middle Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) skeleton from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia', in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2015, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, TX, USA, pp. 91 - 91, presented at Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 75th Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, USA, 14 October 2015 - 17 October 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3393

Wilson LA; Furrer H; Colombo M; Salzburger W; Sanchez MR, 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

Wilson L; Sanchez-Villagra M, 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

Lopez-Aguirre C; Wilson LAB; Hand SJ; Nguyen TS; Koyabu D, 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

Wilson LA; Hand SJ; Guarino-Vignon P; Armstrong KN; Archer M, 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

Wilson LAB; Hand SJ; Lopez-Aguirre C; Archer M; Black KH; Beck RMD; Armstrong KN; Wroe S, 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

Hand S; Archer M; Armstrong K; Guarino-Vignon P; Hung T-T; Lopez-Aguirre C; Wilson L, 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

Hari-Rajan M; Archer M; Hand SJ; Wolfe J; Wilson LAB; Hung T; Bongers A, 2019, 'An Extraordinary Enigmatic Structure in the Middle Ear of Acrobatid Marsupials', in JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 280, pp. S132 - S132

Black KH; Travouillon K; Myers TJ; Archer M; Hand SJ; Wilson LAB; Bevitt J, 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

López-Aguirre C; Wilson L; Koyabu D; Tu V; Hand S, 2019, Decoupled morphological and biomechanical evolution and diversification of the wing in bats, http://dx.doi.org10.32942/osf.io/k3y5f, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/k3y5f

Preprints

Ballard JWO; Field MA; Edwards RJ; Wilson LAB; Koungoulos LG; Rosen BD; Chernoff B; Dudchenko O; Omer A; Keilwagen J; Skvortsova K; Bogdanovic O; Chan E; Zammit R; Hayes V; Aiden EL, 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

Wyatt B; McFadden C; Ward S; Wilson LAB, 2022, Exploring associations between presence of skeletal indicators of disease and sub-adult mortality, http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zf4j7

Brualla N; Wilson L; Doube M; Carter R; McElligott A; Koyabu D, 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

Dorranian D; Serafin S; Lope CP; González EU; Russell B; Murphy E; Wilson L, 2022, Biomechanical Investigation of Ancient Maya Warfare at Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.11.499503

Wilson L; Zajitschek S; Lagisz M; Mason J; Haselimashhadi H; Nakagawa S, 2022, Sex differences in allometry for mouse phenotypic traits indicate that females are not scaled males, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.29.486193

Wyatt B; McFadden C; Ward S; Wilson LAB, Exploring Associations between Presence of Skeletal Indicators of Disease and Sub-Adult Mortality, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4194765

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