Publications

Parker, Abigail K., Brianna K. McHorse, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Niche modeling reveals lack of broad-scale habitat partitioning in extinct horses of North America.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (In Press).

Dickson, Blake V., and Stephanie E. Pierce. “How (and why) fins turn into limbs: insights from anglerfish.” Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (In Press).

Molnar, Julia L., Rui Diogo, John R. Hutchinson, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Evolution of hindlimb muscle anatomy across the tetrapod water-to-land transition, including comparisons with forelimb anatomy.” Anatomical Record (In Press).

Lai, Phil H., Andrew A. Biewener, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Three-dimensional mobility and muscle attachments in the pectoral limb of the Triassic cynodont Massetognathus pascuali (Romer, 1967).” Journal of Anatomy DOI: 10.1111/joa.12766 (2018). Publisher's Version

Neenan, James M., et al., Stephanie E. Pierce, and Roger B.J. Benson. “Evolution of the sauropterygian labyrinth with increasingly pelagic lifestyles.” Current Biology DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.069 (2017). Publisher's Version

Molnar, Julia M., Rui Diogo, John R. Hutchinson, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Reconstructing pectoral appendicular muscle anatomy in fossil fish and tetrapods over the fins-to-limbs transition.” Biological Reviews doi/10.1111/brv.12386, no. *journal’s top 20 most downloaded recent papers (2017). Publisher's Version

Hautier, Lionel, Jillian D. Oliver, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “An overview of xenarthran developmental studies with a focus on the development of the xenarthrous vertebrae.” Journal of Mammalian Evolution doi.org/10.1007/s10914-017-9412-y (2017). Publisher's Version

Dickson, Blake V., Emma Sherratt, Jonathan B Losos, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Semicircular canals in Anolis lizards: ecomorphological convergence and ecomorph affinities of fossil species.” Royal Society Open Science doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170058 (2017). Publisher's Version

Kambic, Robert E., Andrew A. Biewener, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Experimental determination of three-dimensional cervical joint mobility in the avian neck.” Frontiers in Zoology DOI: 10.1186/s12983-017-0223-z (2017). Publisher's Version

McHorse, Brianna K., Andrew A. Biewener, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Mechanics of evolutionary digit reduction in fossil horses (Equidae).” Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 284, no. 20171174 (2017): DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1174. Publisher's Version

Danto, Marylène, Florian Witzmann, Stephanie E. Pierce, and Nadia B. Fröbisch. “Intercentrum versus pleurocentrum growth in early tetrapods: A paleohistological approach.” Journal of Anatomy (2017): DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20709. Publisher's Version

Pierce, Stephanie E., Megan Williams, and Roger B.J. Benson. “Virtual reconstruction of the endocranial anatomy of the early Jurassic marine crocodylomorph Pelagosaurus typus (Thalattosuchia).” PeerJ DOI 10.7717/peerj.3225 (2017). Publisher's Version

Randau, Marcela, Andrew R. Cuff, John R. Hutchinson, Stephanie E. Pierce, and Anjali Goswami. “Regional differentiation of felid vertebral column evolution: a study of 3D shape trajectories.” Organisms Diversity & Evolution doi:10.1007/s13127-016-0304-4 (2016). Publisher's Version

Oliver, Jillian D., Katrina E. Jones, Lionel Hautier, W. J. Loughry, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Vertebral bending mechanics and xenarthrous morphology in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus).” Journal of Experimental Biology 219 (2016): 2991-3002. Publisher's Version

Cuff, Andrew R., Emily L. Sparkes, Marcela Randau, Stephanie E. Pierce, Andrew C. Kitchener, Anjali Goswami, and John R. Hutchinson. “The scaling of postcranial muscles in cats (Felidae) I: forelimb, cervical, and thoracic muscles.” Journal of Anatomy (2016). Publisher's Version

Cuff, Andrew R., Emily L. Sparkes, Marcela Randau, Stephanie E. Pierce, Andrew C. Kitchener, Anjali Goswami, and John R. Hutchinson. “The scaling of postcranial muscles in cats (Felidae) II: hindlimb and lumbosacral muscles.” Journal of Anatomy (2016). Publisher's Version

Randau, Marcela, Anjali Goswami, John. R. Hutchinson, Andrew R. Cuff, and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Cryptic complexity in felid vertebral evolution: shape differentiation and allometry of the axial skeleton.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (2016). Publisher's Version

Polly, P. David, C. Tristan Stayton, Elizabeth R. Dumont, Stephanie E. Pierce, Emily J. Rayfield, and Kenneth D. Angielczyk. “Combining geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis with evolutionary modeling: towards a synthesis.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1111225 (2016). Publisher's Version

Jones, Katrina E., and Stephanie E. Pierce. “Axial allometry in a neutrally buoyant environment: effects of the terrestrial aquatic transition on vertebral scaling.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12809 (2016). Publisher's Version

Molnar, Julia L., Stephanie E. Pierce, Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, Alan H. Turner, and John R. Hutchinson. “Morphological and functional changes in the vertebral column with increasing aquatic adaptation in crocodylomorphs.” Royal Society Open Science 2, no. 150439 (2015).