Publications

Steinfield, K. R., R. N. Felice, M. E. Kirchner, and A. Knapp. 2023. Carrion Converging: Skull Shape Is Predicted by Feeding Ecology in Vultures. Journal of Zoology. 322(2), 113-125 10.1111/jzo.13127

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Marek, R. D., and R. N. Felice. 2023. The neck as a keystone structure in avian macroevolution and mosaicism. BMC Biology. 21:216. 10.1186/s12915-023-01715-x

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Tharakan, S., N. Shepherd, D. J. Gower, E. L. Stanley, R. N. Felice, A. Goswami, and A. Watanabe. 2023. High-Density Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Intraspecific Cranial Integration in the Barred Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica) and Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis). Integrative Organismal Biology 5:obad022. 10.1093/iob/obad022

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Stevens, M., A.-C. Fabre, and R. N. Felice. 2023. Lower jaw modularity in the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra gigliolii). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society blad087 10.1093/biolinnean/blad087

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Goswami, A., E. Noirault, E. J. Coombs, J. Clavel, A.-C. Fabre, T. J. D. Halliday, M. Churchill, A. Curtis, A. Watanabe, N. B. Simmons, B. L. Beatty, J. H. Geisler, D. L. Fox, and R. N. Felice. 2023. Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 378:20220083, 10.1098/rstb.2022.0083

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Hunt, E. S. E., R. N. Felice, J. A. Tobias, and A. Goswami. 2023. Ecological and life history drivers of avian skull evolution. Evolution qpad079., 10.1093/evolut/qpad079

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Goswami, A., Noirault, E., Coombs, E. J., Clavel, J., Fabre, A. -C., Halliday, T. J. D., . . . Felice, R. N. 2022. Attenuated evolution of mammals through the Cenozoic. Science 377-383., 10.1126/science.abm7525

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Coombs, E. J., R. N. Felice, J. Clavel, T. Park, R. F. Bennion, M. Churchill, J. H. Geisler, B. Beatty, and A. Goswami. 2022. The tempo of cetacean cranial evolution. Current Biology S0960982222006789., 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.060

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Felice, R.N., Pol, D., Goswami, A. 2021. Complex macroevolutionary dynamics underly the evolution of the crocodyliform skull. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0919

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Mitchell, M.J., Goswami, A., Felice, R.N. 2021. Cranial integration in the ring-necked parakeet, Psittacula krameri (Psittaciformes: Psittaculidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blab032

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Foister, T.I.F., Felice, R.N. 2021. Ecometric Modelling of Limb Proportions and Vegetation Index Among Non-Human Primates in South America Hystrix, 1:13. doi:10.4404/hystrix-00374-2020

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O’Connor, P.M., Turner, A.H., Groenke, J.R., Felice R.N., Rogers, R.R., Krause, D.W., Rahantarisoa, L.J. 2020. Late Cretaceous bird from Madagascar reveals novel development of beaks. Nature, 588 (7837), 272-276. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2945-x

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Lynch L.M., Felice, R.N., O’Brien H.D. 2020. Appendicular skeletal morphology of North American Martes reflect independent modes of evolution in conjunction with Pleistocene glacial cycles. The Anatomical Record, 1-24. doi:10.1002/ar.24545

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Felice, R.N., Watanabe, A., Cuff, A.R., Hanson, M., Bhullar, B-A., Rayfield, E.R., Witmer, L. M., Norell, M.A., Goswami, A. 2020. Decelerated dinosaur evolution at the origin of birds. PLOS Biology, 18(8), e3000801. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000801

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Fabre, A-.C., Bardua, C., Bon, M., Clavel, J., Felice, R.N., Blackburn, D.C., Streicher, J.W., Bonnel, J, Stanley, E.L., Goswami, A. 2020. Shifts in life cycle drive mosaic skull evolution in salamanders. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4, 1129–1140. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1225-3

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Watanabe, A., Fabre, A-C., Felice, R.N., Maisano, J.A., Müller, J., Herrel, A., and Goswami, A. 2019. Ecomorphological diversification in squamates from conserved pattern of cranial integration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (29), 14688-14697. doi:10.1073/pnas.1820967116

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Goswami, A., Watanabe, A., Felice, R.N., Bardua, C., Fabre, A-C., and Polly, P.D. 2019. High-density morphometric analysis of shape and integration: the good, the bad, and the not-really-a-problem. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59(3), 669–683. doi:10.1093/icb/icz120

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Bardua, C., Felice, R.N., Watanabe, A., Fabre, A-C., and Goswami, A. 2019. A practical guide to surface sliding semi-landmarks in morphometric analyses. Integrative Organismal Biology, obz016. doi:10.1093/iob/obz016

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Felice R.N., Watanabe A, Cuff AR, Noirault E, Pol D, Witmer LM, Norell MA, O’Connor PM, Goswami A. 2019. Evolutionary integration and modularity in the archosaur cranium. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59 (2), 371–382. doi:10.1093/icb/icz052

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Felice R.N., Tobias, J.A., Pigot, A.L., and Goswami, A. 2019. Dietary Niche Shapes Rates of Evolution in Birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, 286 (1897), 20182677. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.2677

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Felice, R.N., Randau, M., and Goswami, A. 2018. A Fly in a Tube: Macroevolutionary Expectations for Integrated Phenotypes. Evolution, 72(12), 2580-2594. doi:10.1111/evo.13608

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Felice, R.N., and Goswami, A. 2018. Developmental Origins of Mosaic Evolution in the Avian Cranium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(3), 555-560. doi:10.1073/pnas.1716437115

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Felice, R.N., and O'Connor, P.M. 2016. The evolution of sexually dimorphic tail feathers is not associated with tail skeleton dimorphism. Journal of Avian Biology, 47(3), 371-377. doi:10.1111/jav.00801

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Ratsimbaholison, N., Felice, R.N., and O’Connor, P.M.. 2016. Ontogenetic changes in the craniomandibular skeleton of abelisaurid dinosaur Majungasaurus crenatissimus from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 61(2), 281–292. doi:10.4202/app.00132.2014

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Adams, D.C., and Felice, R.N. 2014. Assessing Trait Covariation and Morphological Integration on Phylogenies Using Evolutionary Covariance Matrices. PLoS ONE, 9(4), 1-8. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094335

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Felice, R.N. 2014. Coevolution of caudal skeleton and tail feathers in birds. Journal of Morphology, 275: 1431-1440. doi:10.1002/jmor.20321

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Felice, R.N., and O'Connor, P.M. 2014. Ecology and Caudal Skeletal Morphology in Birds: The Convergent Evolution of Pygostyle Shape in Underwater Foraging Taxa. PLoS ONE, 9(2), 1–14. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089737

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Felice, R. N., and Angielczyk, K.D.. 2014. Was Ophiacodon (Synapsida, Eupelycosauria) a Swimmer? A Test Using Vertebral Dimensions; pp. 25–51 in C. F. Kammerer, K. D. Angielczyk, and J. Fröbisch (eds.), Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6841-3_3

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