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List of works by Christy Anna Hipsley

2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition: the winning images

A database of the morphology, ecology and literature of the world's limb‐reduced skinks

scientific article published in 2022

A farewell to arms and legs: a review of limb reduction in squamates

An Integrative Approach Using Phylogenomics and High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography for Species Delimitation in Cryptic Taxa

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Author Correction: High-throughput microCT scanning of small specimens: preparation, packing, parameters and post-processing

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations

scientific article (publication date: March 2012)

Beyond fossil calibrations: realities of molecular clock practices in evolutionary biology

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Bilateral Song Convergence in a Passerine Hybrid Zone: Genetics Contribute in One Species Only

article

Braincase redescription of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) based on computed tomography

scholarly article

Comparative cranial osteology ofBlanus(Squamata: Amphisbaenia)

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Comparative skull osteology and preliminary systematic revision of the African lizard genus Heliobolus (Squamata: Lacertidae)

scientific article published on 11 March 2018

Conserved evolution of skull shape in Caribbean head-first burrowing worm lizards (Squamata: Amphisbaenia)

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Copulatory courtship by bushcricket genital titillators revealed by functional morphology, μCT scanning for 3D reconstruction and female sense structures

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Developmental dynamics of ecomorphological convergence in a transcontinental lizard radiation

scientific article

Distinct patterns of desynchronized limb regression in malagasy scincine lizards (squamata, scincidae)

scientific article

Eocene lizard from Germany reveals amphisbaenian origins

scientific article

Female choice for optimal combinations of multiple male display traits increases offspring survival

scientific article published in 2009

First evidence of convergent lifestyle signal in reptile skull roof microanatomy

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Frequency-Dependent and Correlational Selection Pressures Have Conflicting Consequences for Assortative Mating in a Color-Polymorphic Lizard, Uta stansburiana

scientific article published on 20 June 2014

Genome of the Tasmanian tiger provides insights into the evolution and demography of an extinct marsupial carnivore

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Herpetofaunal diversity changes with climate: evidence from the Quaternary of McEachern’s Deathtrap Cave, southeastern Australia

scientific article published in 2022

High-throughput microCT scanning of small specimens: preparation, packing, parameters and post-processing

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Integrating phylogeography and high-resolution X-ray CT reveals five new cryptic species and multiple hybrid zones among Australian earless dragons

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Integration of Bayesian molecular clock methods and fossil-based soft bounds reveals early Cenozoic origin of African lacertid lizards

scientific article (publication date: July 2009)

Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara)

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Letting the 'cat' out of the bag: pouch young development of the extinct Tasmanian tiger revealed by X-ray computed tomography.

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Macroecological and biogeographical patterns of limb reduction in the world's skinks

Microcomputed tomography and shock microdeformation studies on shatter cones

Molecular, morphological and osteological differentiation of a new species of microhylid frog of the genus Stumpffia from northwestern Madagascar

scientific article (publication date: 27 September 2013)

Morphological disparity opposes latitudinal diversity gradient in lacertid lizards

scientific article

Ontogenetic allometry constrains cranial shape of the head-first burrowing worm lizard Cynisca leucura (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae).

scientific article

Ontogenetic allometry underlies trophic diversity in sea turtles (Chelonioidea)

scientific article published in 2022

Ontogenetic origins of cranial convergence between the extinct marsupial thylacine and placental gray wolf

scholarly article

Postnatal development in a marsupial model, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata; Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae)

scholarly article

Prenatal cranial ossification of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Psychology, not technology, is our biggest challenge to open digital morphology data

scientific article published on 26 April 2019

Relict endemism of extant Rhineuridae (Amphisbaenia): testing for phylogenetic niche conservatism in the fossil record

scientific article

Skull osteology of the Eocene amphisbaenian Spathorhynchus fossorium (Reptilia, Squamata) suggests convergent evolution and reversals of fossorial adaptations in worm lizards.

scientific article

The Derwent River seastar: re-evaluation of a critically endangered marine invertebrate

scientific article published in 2018

Variations on a bauplan: description of a new Malagasy “mermaid skink” with flipper-like forelimbs only (Scincidae,SirenoscincusSakata & Hikida, 2003)

scientific article published in December 2012