Successful materials design for bone-tissue engineering requires an understanding of the
composition and structure of native bone tissue, as well as appropriate selection of …

Skeletal elements have a diverse range of shapes and sizes specialized to their various
roles including protecting internal organs, locomotion, feeding, hearing, and vocalization …

The generation of variation is paramount for the action of natural selection. Although
biologists are now moving beyond the idea that random mutation provides the sole source of …

Background Adaptive radiations are characterized by extreme and/or iterative phenotypic
divergence; however, such variation does not accumulate evenly across an organism …

The role of mechanical morphologies in the exploitation of novel niche space is well
characterized; however, the role of sensory structures in unlocking new niches is less clear …

With diverse mechanical and sensory functions, the vertebrate cranium is a complex
anatomical structure whose shifts between modularity and integration, especially in …

The strains of inbred laboratory mice are isogenic and homogeneous for over 98.6% of their
genomes. However, geometric morphometric studies have demonstrated clear differences …

The vertebrate brain is highly conserved topologically, but less is known about
neuroanatomical variation between individual brain regions. Neuroanatomical variation at …

Orthognathic patients with skeletal class II malocclusion frequently suffer from myofascial
pain (MP). Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and associated factors of …

A snake‐like body plan and burrowing lifestyle characterize numerous vertebrate groups as
a result of convergent evolution. One such group is the amphisbaenians, a clade of limbless …