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List of works by Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela

scientific article published on 23 April 2021

A comprehensive morphological analysis of talpid moles (Mammalia) phylogenetic relationships ⬇️

scientific article published in 2006

A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice.

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A palaeoequatorial ornithischian and new constraints on early dinosaur diversification

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A stem delphinidan from the Caribbean region of Venezuela

scientific article published on 03 March 2021

Anatomy and development of the bony inner ear in the woolly opossum, Caluromys philander (Didelphimorphia, Marsupialia) ⬇️

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Assessing canalisation of intraspecific variation on a macroevolutionary scale: the case of crinoid arms through the Phanerozoic.

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Carpal evolution in diprotodontian marsupials

scientific article published in March 2006

Contributions on vertebrate paleontology in Venezuela Preface

scientific article published in June 2008

Do Developmental Constraints and High Integration Limit the Evolution of the Marsupial Oral Apparatus?

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Evaluating the self-domestication hypothesis of human evolution

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Evolution and phylogenetic signal of growth trajectories: the case of chelid turtles ⬇️

scientific article published on October 22, 2010

Evolution of bone compactness in extant and extinct moles (Talpidae): exploring humeral microstructure in small fossorial mammals ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 26 February 2013)

Evolution of opercle bone shape along a macrohabitat gradient: species identification using mtDNA and geometric morphometric analyses in neotropical sea catfishes (Ariidae)

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Evolution of organogenesis and the origin of altriciality in mammals.

scientific article published in July 2016

Fossil Cetaceans (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Neogene of Colombia and Venezuela

Giant extinct caiman breaks constraint on the axial skeleton of extant crocodylians

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Giant rodents from the Neotropics: diversity and dental variation of late Miocene neoepiblemid remains from Urumaco, Venezuela

scientific article published in 2015

Growth and life history of Middle Miocene deer (Mammalia, Cervidae) based on bone histology

scientific article published in 2015

Head to head: the case for fighting behaviour in Megaloceros giganteus using finite-element analysis

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Hermann Karsten (1817–1908): a German naturalist in the Neotropics and the significance of his paleovertebrate collection

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

Heterochrony and developmental modularity of cranial osteogenesis in lipotyphlan mammals ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes

scientific article (publication date: 2 February 2010)

Hox gene expression in the specialized limbs of the Iberian mole (Talpa occidentalis).

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Intensive human contact correlates with smaller brains: differential brain size reduction in cattle types

scientific article published on 09 June 2021

Internal cranial anatomy of Early Triassic species of †Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: †Saurichthyiformes): implications for the phylogenetic placement of †saurichthyiforms

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Longevity and life history of cave bears – a review and novel data from tooth cementum and relative emergence of permanent dentition

Mammalian bone palaeohistology: a survey and new data with emphasis on island forms

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Morphological diversity of integumentary traits in fowl domestication: Insights from disparity analysis and embryonic development

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Morphological variation under domestication: how variable are chickens?

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview

scientific article published in 2023

Neogene vertebrates from Urumaco, Falcón State, Venezuela: Diversity and significance

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Neomorphosis and heterochrony of skull shape in dog domestication

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Neotropical mammal diversity and the Great American Biotic Interchange: spatial and temporal variation in South America's fossil record

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On the development of the chondrocranium and the histological anatomy of the head in perinatal stages of marsupial mammals.

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On the lack of a universal pattern associated with mammalian domestication: differences in skull growth trajectories across phylogeny

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On trends and patterns in macroevolution: Williston's law and the branchiostegal series of extant and extinct osteichthyans

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Ontogenesis of the scapula in marsupial mammals, with special emphasis on perinatal stages of didelphids and remarks on the origin of the therian scapula ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Ontogeny and phylogeny of the mammalian chondrocranium: the cupula nasi anterior and associated structures of the anterior head region

scientific article published on 24 November 2018

Palaeohistology and life history evolution in cave bears, Ursus spelaeus sensu lato

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Palaeontological evidence for the last temporal occurrence of the ancient western Amazonian river outflow into the Caribbean

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Palaeontology, sedimentology, and biostratigraphy of a fossiliferous outcrop of the Early Miocene Querales Formation, Falcón Basin, Venezuela

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Past Colonization of South America by Trionychid Turtles: Fossil Evidence from the Neogene of Margarita Island, Venezuela

scientific article published in September 2006

Pliocene sigmodontine rodents (Mammalia: Cricetidae) in northernmost South America: test of biogeographic hypotheses and revised evolutionary scenarios

scientific article published in 2023

Potential genetic bases of morphological evolution in the triassic fish Saurichthys ⬇️

scientific article published on September 17, 2010

Resolving homology in the face of shifting germ layer origins: Lessons from a major skull vault boundary

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Resurrecting Darwin's Niata - anatomical, biomechanical, genetic, and morphometric studies of morphological novelty in cattle.

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Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence, Northwestern Venezuela)

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Shape variation and modularity of skull and teeth in domesticated horses and wild equids.

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Shark and ray diversity in the Tropical America (Neotropics)-an examination of environmental and historical factors affecting diversity

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Similar rates of morphological evolution in domesticated and wild pigs and dogs.

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Size Variation under Domestication: Conservatism in the inner ear shape of wolves, dogs and dingoes.

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Study of morphological variation of northern Neotropical Ariidae reveals conservatism despite macrohabitat transitions

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

The Allemann collection from the Santa Cruz Formation (late early Miocene), Argentina, in Zurich, Switzerland

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

The Neogene Record of Northern South American Native Ungulates

The Neogene tropical America fish assemblage and the paleobiogeography of the Caribbean region

scientific article published on 27 August 2011

The Tropics as Reservoir of Otherwise Extinct Mammals: The Case of Rodents from a New Pliocene Faunal Assemblage from Northern Venezuela ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

The anatomy of the world's largest extinct rodent

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The anatomy, paleobiology, and evolutionary relationships of the largest extinct side-necked turtle ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

The early development of the echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Mammalia: Monotremata), and patterns of mammalian development

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The evolution of reproductive strategies in turtles

scientific article published in 2022

The taming of the neural crest: a developmental perspective on the origins of morphological covariation in domesticated mammals

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Thoracolumbar vertebral number: The first skeletal synapomorphy for afrotherian mammals

article by Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra et al published March 2007 in Systematics and Biodiversity

Timing of cranial suture closure in placental mammals: phylogenetic patterns, intraspecific variation, and comparison with marsupials

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Transcriptional heterochrony in talpid mole autopods ⬇️

scientific article published on August 9, 2012

Unaltered sequence of dental, skeletal, and sexual maturity in domestic dogs compared to the wolf

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Why the long face? Comparative shape analysis of miniature, pony, and other horse skulls reveals changes in ontogenetic growth

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

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