Pubblicazioni

Conical and sabertoothed cats as an exception to craniofacial evolutionary allometry

2023 - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Tamagnini, Davide; Michaud, Margot; Meloro, Carlo; Raia, Pasquale; Soibelzon, Leopoldo; SebastiÃ¡n Tambusso, P.; Varela, Luciano; Maiorano, Luigi

Phenotypic plasticity over genetic diversity. Ecomorphological patterns revealed in the eurytopic and threatened Italian endemic freshwater fish Sarmarutilus rubilio (Bonaparte, 1837)

2023 - BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Petrosino, Gerardo; Rossi, Anna Rita; Tancioni, Lorenzo; Gallozzi, Francesco; Colangelo, Paolo

One among many: The enigmatic case of the Miocene mammal, Kolponomos newportensis

2022 - BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Modafferi, M.; Melchionna, M.; Castiglione, S.; Tamagnini, D.; Maiorano, L.; Sansalone, G.; Profico, A.; Girardi, G.; Raia, P.

Evaluating the island effect on phenotypic evolution in the Italian wall lizard, Podarcis siculus (Reptilia: Lacertidae)

2021 - BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Avramo, Vasco; Senczuk, Gabriele; Corti, Claudia; BÃ¶hme, Wolfgang; Capula, Massimo; Castiglia, Riccardo; Colangelo, Paolo

Testing the occurrence of convergence in the craniomandibular shape evolution of living carnivorans

2021 - EVOLUTION

Tamagnini, Davide; Meloro, Carlo; Raia, Pasquale; Maiorano, Luigi

Macroevolutionary ecomorphology of the Carnivora skull: adaptations and constraints in the extant species

2021 - ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Meloro, Carlo; Tamagnini, Davide

Measuring the asymmetry in long bone morphometric maps of cortical thickness: occupationrelated differences in the modern human humerus

2021 - Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE)

Zeppilli, Carlotta; Profico, Antonio; Micarelli, Ileana; Marchi, Damiano; OâHiggins, Paul; Manzi, Giorgio

Mandible morphology as a tool to investigate origin, adaptation and stress in invasive alien species: first insights into Callosciurus erythraeus (Rodentia: Sciuridae) in Europe

2021 - THE EUROPEAN ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Mazzamuto, M. V.; Su, H. -J.; Guidarelli, G.; Preatoni, D.; Russo, L. F.; Loy, A.; Martinoli, A.

Current options for visualization of local deformation in modern shape analysis applied to paleobiological case studies

2020 - FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE

Piras, Paolo; Profico, Antonio; Pandolfi, Luca; Raia, Pasquale; Di Vincenzo, Fabio; Mondanaro, Alessandro; Castiglione, Silvia; Varano, Valerio

Decoupling functional and morphological convergence, the study case of fossorial mammalia

2020 - FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE

Sansalone, Gabriele; Castiglione, Silvia; Raia, Pasquale; Archer, Michael; Dickson, Blake; Hand, Suzanne; Piras, Paolo; Profico, Antonio; Wroe, Stephen

Investigating ecological and phylogenetic constraints in hippopotamidae skull shape

2020 - RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA

Pandolfi, L.; Martino, R.; Rook, L.; Piras, P.

A geometric morphometric approach to the study of sexual dimorphism in the modern human frontal bone

2020 - AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Del Bove, A.; Profico, A.; Riga, A.; Bucchi, A.; Lorenzo, C.

Morphomap. An R package for long bone landmarking, cortical thickness, and cross-sectional geometry mapping

2020 - AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Profico, Antonio; Bondioli, Luca; Raia, Pasquale; O'Higgins, Paul; Marchi, Damiano

Does divergence from normal patterns of integration increase as chromosomal fusions increase in number? A test on a house mouse hybrid zone

2020 - CURRENT ZOOLOGY

Fruciano, C.; Colangelo, P.; Castiglia, R.; Franchini, P.

Quantifying the lateralization in the upper limb of historical human populations: a detailed study of the cortical bone distribution in the humeral diaphysis

2020 - Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE)

Zeppilli, Carlotta; Micarelli, Ileana; Profico, Antonio; Tafuri, MARY ANNE; Manzi, Giorgio

A new tool for digital alignment in virtual anthropology

2019 - THE ANATOMICAL RECORD

Profico, A.; Buzi, C.; Davis, C.; Melchionna, M.; Veneziano, A.; Raia, P.; Manzi, G.

Sexual dimorphim in the human calvarium. A geometric morphometric approach

2019 - Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution 8

Del Bove, Antonietta; Profico, Antonio; Bucchi, Ana; Lorenzo, Carlos

Seeing the wood through the trees. Combining shape information from different landmark configurations

2019 - HYSTRIX

Profico, Antonio; Piras, Paolo; Buzi, Costantino; Del Bove, Antonietta; Melchionna, Marina; Senczuk, Gabriele; Varano, Valerio; Veneziano, Alessio; Raia, Pasquale; Manzi, Giorgio

Who is the most stressed? morphological disparity and mechanical behavior of the feeding apparatus of ceratopsian dinosaurs (ornithischia, marginocephalia)

2018 - CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Maiorino, Leonardo; Farke, Andrew A.; Kotsakis, Tassos; Raia, Pasquale; Piras, Paolo

When moles became diggers. tegulariscaptor gen. nov., from the early oligocene of south germany, and the evolution of talpid fossoriality

2018 - JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Sansalone, G.; Kotsakis, T.; Schwermann, A. H.; Van den Hoek Ostende, L. W.; Piras, P.

A study in scarlet: incipient speciation, phenotypic differentiation and conservation implications of the Podarcis lizards of the western Pontine islands, Italy

2018 - BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Senczuk, Gabriele; Colangelo, Paolo; Avramo, Vasco; Castiglia, Riccardo; BÃ¶hme, Wolfgang; Corti, Claudia

Neuromandibular integration in humans and chimpanzees. Implications for dental and mandibular reduction in Homo

2018 - AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Veneziano, Alessio; Meloro, Carlo; Irish, Joel D.; Stringer, Chris; Profico, Antonio; De Groote, Isabelle

Unexpectedly rapid evolution of mandibular shape in hominins

2018 - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Raia, P.; Boggioni, M.; Carotenuto, F.; Castiglione, S.; Di Febbraro, M.; Di Vincenzo, F.; Melchionna, M.; Mondanaro, A.; Papini, A.; Profico, A.; Serio, C.; Veneziano, A.; Vero, V. A.; Rook, L.; Meloro, C.; Manzi, G.

Measuring the shape. Performance evaluation of a photogrammetry improvement applied to the Neanderthal skull Saccopastore 1

2018 - ACTA IMEKO

Buzi, Costantino; Micarelli, Ileana; Profico, Antonio; Conti, Jacopo; Grassetti, Roberto; Cristiano, Walter; Di Vincenzo, Fabio; Tafuri, Mary Anne; Manzi, Giorgio

Geometric morphometric analyses of sexual dimorphism and allometry in two sympatric snakes: Natrix helvetica (Natricidae) and Vipera berus (Viperidae)

2018 - ZOOLOGY

Tamagnini, Davide; Stephenson, Jamie; Brown, Richard P; Meloro, Carlo