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scientific article published on 10 September 2021

A large-scale survey of heterochrony in anuran cranial ossification patterns

scientific article published in 2010

A new small-bodied ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from a deep, high-energy Early Cretaceous river of the Australian-Antarctic rift system.

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

An improved body mass dataset for the study of marsupial brain size evolution.

scientific article

Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications

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Australia's prehistoric 'swamp king': revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus <i>Pallimnarchus</i> de Vis, 1886

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Australian Rodents Reveal Conserved Cranial Evolutionary Allometry across 10 Million Years of Murid Evolution

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Author Correction: The endocast of the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) reveals insights into its sensory ecology and the evolution of nocturnality in birds

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Author’s Reply to: Late Still Equals Large

Autopodial skeletal diversity in hystricognath rodents: Functional and phylogenetic aspects

Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids

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Brain size, life history, and metabolism at the marsupial/placental dichotomy

scientific article (publication date: 14 September 2010)

Carpal evolution in diprotodontian marsupials

scientific article published in March 2006

Coagulating Colubrids: Evolutionary, Pathophysiological and Biodiscovery Implications of Venom Variations between Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) and Twig Snake (Thelotornis mossambicanus).

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Conserved relative timing of cranial ossification patterns in early mammalian evolution

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Developmental asynchrony and antagonism of sex determination pathways in a lizard with temperature-induced sex reversal

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Developmental modularity and the marsupial-placental dichotomy

scientific article published in May 2009

Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Distortion in formalin-fixed brains: using geometric morphometrics to quantify the worst-case scenario in mice

scientific article published on December 4, 2011

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

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Down a Rabbit Hole: Burrowing Behaviour and Larger Home Ranges are Related to Larger Brains in Leporids

scientific article published in 2022

Evidence at hand: Diversity, functional implications, and locomotor prediction in intrinsic hand proportions of diprotodontian marsupials

scientific article published in December 2006

First record of a tomistomine crocodylian from Australia

journal article in Scientific Reports

Getting a head in hard soils: Convergent skull evolution and divergent allometric patterns explain shape variation in a highly diverse genus of pocket gophers (Thomomys).

scientific article

Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls

scientific article published in 2021

Individual variation of the masticatory system dominates 3D skull shape in the herbivory-adapted marsupial wombats

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Integration, heterochrony, and adaptation in pedal digits of syndactylous marsupials

scientific article (publication date: 25 May 2008)

Low resolution scans can provide a sufficiently accurate, cost- and time-effective alternative to high resolution scans for 3D shape analyses.

scientific article published on 22 June 2018

Low resolution scans provide a sufficiently accurate, cost- and time-effective alternative to high resolution scans for interspecific 3D shape analyses

Low resolution scans provide a sufficiently accurate, cost- and time-effective alternative to high resolution scans for interspecific 3D shape analyses

Mammalian development does not recapitulate suspected key transformations in the evolution of the mammalian middle ear

Mammalian development does not recapitulate suspected key transformations in the evolutionary detachment of the mammalian middle ear

scientific article

Marsupials indeed confirm an ancestral mammalian pattern: A reply to Isler

scientific article published on 21 February 2011

Monotreme ossification sequences and the riddle of mammalian skeletal development

scientific article published on February 18, 2011

Multiple regression modeling for estimating endocranial volume in extinct Mammalia

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Neonatal maturity as the key to understanding brain size evolution in homeothermic vertebrates

scientific article published on 17 December 2010

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

scholarly article

Open data and digital morphology

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2017)

Ossification heterochrony in the therian postcranial skeleton and the marsupial-placental dichotomy

scientific article published on 16 May 2008

Out on a limb: bandicoot limb co-variation suggests complex impacts of development and adaptation on marsupial forelimb evolution.

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

PARALLEL EVOLUTION OF HAND ANATOMY IN KANGAROOS AND VOMBATIFORM MARSUPIALS: FUNCTIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS

article by Vera Weisbecker & Mike Archer published March 2008 in Palaeontology

Primate hippocampus size and organization are predicted by sociality but not diet

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Reassessing the relationship between brain size, life history, and metabolism at the marsupial/placental dichotomy

scientific article published in September 2014

Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul’s megafauna

scientific article

Resolving the evolution of the mammalian middle ear using Bayesian inference

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Sex determination mode does not affect body or genital development of the central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps).

scientific article

Sharing is caring? Measurement error and the issues arising from combining 3D morphometric datasets.

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?

scientific article published on 05 July 2020

Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning

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Skeletal ossification and sequence heterochrony in xenarthran evolution.

scientific article published in September 2011

Skull shape of a widely distributed, endangered marsupial reveals little evidence of local adaptation between fragmented populations

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Testing hypotheses of developmental constraints on mammalian brain partition evolution, using marsupials.

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

Testing hypotheses of marsupial brain size variation using phylogenetic multiple imputations and a Bayesian comparative framework

scientific article published on 31 March 2021

The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes

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The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes

scientific article published on 01 May 2017

The endocast of the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) reveals insights into its sensory ecology and the evolution of nocturnality in birds

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

The evolution of relative brain size in marsupials is energetically constrained but not driven by behavioral complexity.

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Why "late equals large" does not work

scientific article