2020

Dickson, B.V., J.A. Clack, T.R. Smithson, and S.E. Pierce. “Functional adaptive landscapes predict terrestrial capacity at the origin of limbs.” Nature 589 (2021): pages242–245. Publisher's Version

Simões, T.R., M.W. Caldwell, and S.E. Pierce. “Sphenodontian phylogeny and the impact of model choice in Bayesian morphological clock estimates of divergence times and evolutionary rates.” BMC Biology 18, no. 191 (2020): 10.1186/s12915-020-00901-5. Publisher's Version

Johanson, Z., J. Jeffery, T. Challands, S.E. Pierce, and J.A. Clack. “A New Look at Carboniferous Rhizodontid Humeri (Sarcopterygii; Tetrapodomorpha).” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40, no. 3 (2020): e1813150. Publisher's Version

Simões, T.R., O. Vernygora, M.W. Caldwell, and S.E. Pierce. “Megaevolutionary dynamics and the timing of evolutionary innovation in reptiles.” Nature Communications 11 (2020): 3322. Publisher's Version

Pierce, S.E., L.Lamas, L. Pelligand, N. Schilling, and J.R. Hutchinson. “Patterns of limb and epaxial muscle activity during walking in the fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra.” Integrative Organismal Biology 2 (2020): obaa015. Publisher's Version

Ibrahim, N., S. Maganuco, C. Dal Sasso, M. Fabbri, + 12 authors, and S.E Pierce. “Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur.” Nature 581 (2020): 67-70. Publisher's Version

Regnault, S., P. Fahn-Lai, R.M. Norris, and S.E. Pierce. “Shoulder muscle architecture in the echidna (Monotremata: Tachyglossus aculeatus) indicates conserved functional properties.” Journal of Mammalian Evolution 27 (2020): 591–603. Publisher's Version

Fahn-Lai, P., A.A. Biewener, and S.E. Pierce. “Broad similarities in shoulder muscle architecture and organization across two amniotes: implications for reconstructing non-mammalian synapsids.” PeerJ 8, no. e8556 (2020). Publisher's Version

Jones, K. E., S. Gonzalez, K.D. Angielczyk, and S.E. Pierce. “Regionalization of the axial skeleton predates functional adaptation in the forerunners of mammals.” Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1094-9 (2020). Publisher's Version

Hedrick, B.P., B.V. Dickson, E.R. Dumont, and S.E. Pierce. “The evolutionary diversity of locomotor innovation in rodents is not linked to proximal limb morphology.” Scientific Reports 10, no. 717 (2020): 1-11. Publisher's Version