The lifestyle of extinct tetrapods is often difficult to assess when clear morphological adaptations, such as swimming paddles are absent. According to the hypothesis of bone functional adaptation, the architecture of trabecular bone adapts sensitively to physiological loadings. Previous studies have already shown a clear relation between trabecular architecture and locomotor behavior, mainly in mammals and birds. However, the link between trabecular architecture and lifestyle has rarely been examined. Here, trabecular architecture of different clades of reptiles has been correlated with a wide range of lifestyles (aquatic, amphibious, terrestrial). Humeri of squamates, turtles and crocodylians have been scanned with X-ray computed microtom...
The transition from aquatic to terrestrial habitats was an event in vertebrate evolution that preced...
This paper is the last of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of cancellous bone ...
This paper is the first of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of cancellous (‘sp...
Transitions between water and land have occurred multiple times in vertebrate evolutionary history. ...
The concept of the adaptive landscape has been invaluable to evolutionary biologists for visualizing...
The colonisation of freshwater and marine ecosystems by land vertebrates has repeatedly occurred in ...
Members of several terrestrial vertebrate lineages have returned to nearly exclusive use of aquatic ...
The relationship between form and function can have profound impacts on the evolution and ecology of...
During evolutionary reinvasions of water by terrestrial vertebrates, ancestrally tubular limb bones ...
Specialization for a new habitat often entails a cost to performance in the ancestral habitat. Altho...
Osteo-histology provides information on age, growth strategies, and lifestyles of both recent and an...
Abstract Background Bone structure has a crucial role in the functional adaptations that allow verte...
SUMMARY Studies of limb bone loading during terrestrial locomotion have focused primarily on birds a...
International audienceAquatic reptiles are very diversified in the fossil record. The description an...
Living tetrapods owe their existence to a critical moment 360-340 million years ago when their ances...
The transition from aquatic to terrestrial habitats was an event in vertebrate evolution that preced...
This paper is the last of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of cancellous bone ...
This paper is the first of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of cancellous (‘sp...
Transitions between water and land have occurred multiple times in vertebrate evolutionary history. ...
The concept of the adaptive landscape has been invaluable to evolutionary biologists for visualizing...
The colonisation of freshwater and marine ecosystems by land vertebrates has repeatedly occurred in ...
Members of several terrestrial vertebrate lineages have returned to nearly exclusive use of aquatic ...
The relationship between form and function can have profound impacts on the evolution and ecology of...
During evolutionary reinvasions of water by terrestrial vertebrates, ancestrally tubular limb bones ...
Specialization for a new habitat often entails a cost to performance in the ancestral habitat. Altho...
Osteo-histology provides information on age, growth strategies, and lifestyles of both recent and an...
Abstract Background Bone structure has a crucial role in the functional adaptations that allow verte...
SUMMARY Studies of limb bone loading during terrestrial locomotion have focused primarily on birds a...
International audienceAquatic reptiles are very diversified in the fossil record. The description an...
Living tetrapods owe their existence to a critical moment 360-340 million years ago when their ances...
The transition from aquatic to terrestrial habitats was an event in vertebrate evolution that preced...
This paper is the last of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of cancellous bone ...
This paper is the first of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of cancellous (‘sp...