Morphological variations and asymmetry

The paper uses linear morphometrics to test sexual dimorphism in Uintatherium anceps and finds no strong evidence of it, contrasting with findings in Bison bison.

This study finds urban house mice have smaller body size and some cranial shape differences not fully explained by size, suggesting body size mediates morphological responses to urbanization.

The paper examines directional selection during adaptive zone transitions in mammals, finding elevated evolutionary rates in most cases compared to genetic drift.

This paper develops an automated deep learning pipeline for Diptera wing landmark and semilandmark annotation, achieving high accuracy comparable to human observers and outperforming existing methods.

The paper introduces an Empirical Bayes framework for analyzing high-dimensional trait evolution, showing it is faster and more efficient than existing methods.

This study introduces a stochastic framework for phylogenetic shape analysis using diffusion processes and applies it to butterfly wing data.

The paper demonstrates that phylogenetic-generalised-least-squares (PGLS) can obscure conservative trait correlation (CTC) in shape analysis, using geometric morphometrics on rock-wallaby crania.

This paper evaluates methods for accounting for ontogenetic variation in paleontology using alligator microCT data, finding flaws in common approaches and identifying invariant characters for taxonomic analysis.

This paper shows that PCA fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominin datasets, highlighting flaws in using PCA for phylogenetic inference.

This study examines how habitat use influences morphological variation in snakes, finding that habitat groups exhibit distinct morphologies with limited convergence in fossorial and aquatic species.

This study analyzes 3D shape covariation in modern human postcanine teeth using geometric morphometrics, finding high correlations within dental arches and notable differences between antagonist teeth.

The paper introduces a novel Pagels λ adjustment to model phylogenetic signal in trait covariance analysis, revealing ecological associations and evolutionary shape covariation in surgeonfishes.

This study examines genetic covariance matrix stability in Drosophila suzukii during invasion, finding moderate genetic differentiation and low genetic constraint on wing shape evolution.

This study identifies QTL driving skeletal divergence in temperate and tropical house mice, revealing both small-effect and pleiotropic loci involved in adaptive evolution.

The paper introduces a Python-based method using pseudo-landmarks and Procrustes analysis to compare leaf shapes across species and development, showing shape transitions and genetic correlations.

This study examines how domestication shapes multivariate phenotypic spaces across species, finding convergence, reduced phenotypic space, and a new index for cross-species comparison.

This paper introduces DICAROS, a method for ancestral shape reconstruction that outperforms existing methods by combining LDDMM and Felsensteins Independent Contrasts, and applies it to swallowtail butterflies.

The paper shows dietary ecology drives morphological convergence and integration across multiple skeletal structures in waterfowl.

The paper quantitatively assesses avian palate ontogeny across 70 species to determine the developmental mechanisms behind morphological disparity, finding no evidence of neoteny but highlighting the role of developmental mode.

The paper challenges the inhibitory cascade model's validity by showing its apparent fit is due to scaling artifacts, not biological relevance.

Orangutan is an R package that streamlines phenotypic data analysis for species delimitation and population comparisons, offering automated statistical tools and visualization.

The paper identifies genetic factors that modify CycG-induced developmental instability in Drosophila by performing a genome-wide deficiency screen.

The paper examines dental trait variation in four sympatric Arctic charr morphs, finding differences in tooth numbers and angles related to feeding specializations and bone morphology.

This study shows that habitat and complex life cycles in salamanders increase limb bone diversity through trade-offs between stiffness and density.

This study examines how artificial selection for endurance running in mice affects ribcage morphology, finding modular adaptations in caudal ribs with no overall shape difference between selected and control groups.

The paper examines how neural crest cell biology influences skull evolution in lizards, finding that neural crest-derived bones evolve rapidly under sexual selection but show slower rates and less disparity across species.

The paper integrates multi-level dental diversity in sharks to link macro-evolutionary patterns with ecological strategies by analyzing morphological features across scales and correlating them with ecological and genetic traits.

This study analyzes head shape variation in snakes to determine how ecology, not phylogeny, drives morphological adaptation to habitat and diet.

The paper examines cranial shape adaptations in rat-kangaroos to hard biting, finding shared and divergent biomechanical strategies in species with similar diets.

This paper develops analytical models for the evolution of genetic covariance matrices (G-matrices) on phylogenies, unifying quantitative genetics and macroevolutionary theory.