Anatomy, Comparative

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes. 
  • Comparative functional analysis of skull morphology of tree-gouging primates. 
  • Comparative stereology of the lizard and frog myocardium. 
  • Evolution of neocortex. 
  • Evolution of the pulvinar. 
  • Evolutionary dissociations between homologous genes and homologous structures. 
  • Hip extensor mechanics and the evolution of walking and climbing capabilities in humans, apes, and fossil hominins. 
  • Histological demonstration of muscle spindles in the tongue of the rat. 
  • Investigating the importance of anatomical homology for cross-species phenotype comparisons using semantic similarity. - Accepted at pacific symposium on biocomputing, 2016 
  • Moving the mountain: analysis of the effort required to transform comparative anatomy into computable anatomy. 
  • NSF workshop report: discovering general principles of nervous system organization by comparing brain maps across species. 
  • Parallels in the visual afferent projections of the thalamus in the hedgehog (Paraechinus hypomelas) and the turtle (Pseudemys scripta). 
  • Scaling of bony canals for encephalic vessels in euarchontans: Implications for the role of the vertebral artery and brain metabolism. 
  • Thalamotelencephalic projections in the turtle (Pseudemys scripta). 
  • The comparative anatomy and phylogeny of the tentorium cerebelli. 
  • The significance of primate paleontology for anthropological studies. 
  • Understanding the evolution of the windlass mechanism of the human foot from comparative anatomy: Insights, obstacles, and future directions. 
  • Visual pathways to the telencephalon in reptiles and mammals.