Lab Publication List

Aguirre-Fernández G, Barbieri C, Graff A, Perez de Arce J, Moreno H, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 8:208 [doi: 10.1057/s41599-021-00881-z].

Antoine P-O, Yans J, Castillo AA, Stutz N, Abello MA, Adnet S, Custódio MA, Benites-Palomino A, Billet G, Boivin M, Herrera F, Jaramillo C, Mártinez C, Moreno F, Navarrete RE, Negri FR, Parra F, Pujos F, Rage J-C, Ribeiro AM, Robinet C, Roddaz M, Tejada-Lara JV, Varas-Malca R, Ventura Santos R, Salas-Gismondi R, Marivaux L (2021) Biotic community and landscape changes around the Eocene–Oligocene transition at Shapaja, Peruvian Amazonia: regional or global drivers? Global and Planetary Change 202:103512 [doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103512].

Balcarcel AM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Segura V, Evin A (2021) Singular patterns of skull shape and brain size change in the domestication of South American camelids. Journal of Mammalogy 102 (1):220-235 [doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa135].

Balcarcel AM, Veitschegger K, Clauss M, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) Intensive human contact correlates with smaller brains: differential brain size reduction in cattle types. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20210813[doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0813].

Bastiaans D, Madzia D, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Sachs S (2021) Equatorial pliosaurid from Venezuela marks the youngest South American occurrence of the clade. Scientific Reports 11 (1):15501 [doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94515-8].

Benites-Palomino A, Reyes-Cespedes AE, Aguirre-Fernández G, Sanchez R, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) A stem delphinidan from the Caribbean region of Venezuela. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140 (1):6 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-021-00217-z].

Benites-Palomino A, Vélez-Juarbe J, Collareta A, Ochoa D, Altamirano A, Carré M, Laime MJ, Urbina M, Salas-Gismondi R (2021) Nasal compartmentalization in Kogiidae (Cetacea, Physeteroidea): insights from a new late Miocene dwarf sperm whale from the Pisco Formation. Papers in Palaeontology 7 (3):1507-1524 [doi:10.1002/spp2.1351].

Boivin M, Marivaux L, Aguirre-Diaz W, Benites-Palomino A, Billet G, Pujos F, Salas-Gismondi R, Stutz NS, Tejada-Lara JV, Varas-Malca RM (2021) Late middle Miocene caviomorph rodents from Tarapoto, Peruvian Amazonia. PLoS ONE 16 (11):e0258455 [doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258455].

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Aguilera OA, Benites-Palomino A, Hsiou AS, Birindelli JLO, Adnet S, Cadena E-A, Scheyer TM (2021) A historical vertebrate collection from the Middle Miocene of the Peruvian Amazon. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140 (1):26 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-021-00239-7].

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Sánchez R, Scheyer TM, Carrillo JD, Delfino M, Georgalis GL, Kerber L, Ruiz-Ramoni D, Birindelli JLO, Cadena EA, Rincón AF, Chavez-Hoffmeister M, Carlini AA, Carvalho MR, Trejos-Tamayo R, Vallejo F, Jaramillo C, Jones DS, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 140 (1):9 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-020-00216-6].

Geiger M (2021) Pattern and pace of morphological change due to variable human impact: the case of Japanese macaques. Primates 62 (6):955-970 [doi: 10.1007/s10329-021-00933-7].

Geiger M, Schoenebeck JJ, Schneider RA, Schmidt MJ, Fischer MS, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) Exceptional changes in skeletal anatomy under domestication: the case of brachycephaly. Integrative Organismal Biology 3 (1):obab023 [doi: 10.1093/iob/obab023].

Guicharrouse-Vargas M, Villafana JA, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Oyanadel-Urbina P, Figueroa R, Pérez-Marín JR, Rivadeneira MM, Kriwet J (2021) The first fossil record of the sawshark Pliotrema (Pristiophoridae) from the Neogene of the South-Eastern Pacific (Chile). Ameghiniana 58 (2):122–131 [doi: 10.5710/AMGH.01.03.2021.3389].

Herrera-Castillo CM, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) Non-invasive imaging reveals new cranial element of the basal ornithischian dinosaur Laquintasaura venezuelae, Early Jurassic of Venezuela. Anartia 32:53-60.

Hüppi E, Werneburg I, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) Evolution and development of the bird chondrocranium. Frontiers in Zoology 18 (1):21 [doi: 10.1186/s12983-021-00406-z].

Lambert O, Collareta A, Benites‐Palomino A, Di Celma C, De Muizon C, Urbina M, Bianucci G (2021) A new small, mesorostrine inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from four upper Miocene localities in the Pisco Basin, Peru. Papers in Palaeontology 7 (2):1043-1064 [doi: 10.1002/spp2.1332].

Le Verger K, González Ruiz LR, Billet G (2021) Comparative anatomy and phylogenetic contribution of intracranial osseous canals and cavities in armadillos and glyptodonts (Xenarthra, Cingulata). Journal of Anatomy 239 (6):1473-1502 [doi: 10.1111/joa.13512].

Núñez-León D, Cordero GA, Schlindwein X, Jensen P, Stoeckli E, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Werneburg I (2021) Shifts in growth, but not differentiation, foreshadow the formation of exaggerated forms under chicken domestication. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20210392 [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0392]

Oyanadel-Urbina P, De Gracia C, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Nielsen SN, Flores H, Casteletto V, Kriwet J, Rivadeneira M, Villafaña JA (2021) Neogene bony fishes from the Bahía Inglesa Formation, Northern Chile. Ameghiniana 58 (4):345-368 [doi: 10.5710/AMGH.26.05.2021.3375].

Ronco F, Matschiner M, Böhne A, Boila A, Büscher HH, El Taher A, Indermaur A, Malinsky M, Ricci V, Kahmen A (2021) Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes. Nature 589 (7840):76-81 [doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2930-4].

Segura V, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) Human-canid relationship in the Americas: an examination of canid biological attributes and domestication. Mammalian Biology 101:387–406 [doi: 10.1007/s42991-021-00129-y].

Wilson LAB, Balcarcel AM, Geiger M, Heck L, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2021) Modularity patterns in mammalian domestication: assessing developmental hypotheses for diversification. Evolution Letters 5 (4):385-396 [doi:10.1002/evl3.231].