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2024

Orkney, A,* Boerma, B., D. and Hedrick, B. P. 2024. Evolutionary integration of forelimb and hindlimb proportions within the bat wing membrane inhibits ecological adaptation compared to birds. Nature Ecology and Evolution.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02572-9

Rothier, P. S.,* Faber, A-C., Benson, R. B. J., Martinez, Q., Fabre, P-H., Hedrick, B. P., and Herrel, A. 2024. Of flippers and wings: The locomotor environment as a driver of the evolution of forelimb morphological diversity in mammals. Functional Ecology 38(10): 2231–2246. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14632

Lawson, A. B., Martinez, A., Hedrick, B. P., Echols, M. S., and Schachner, E. R. 2024. Air sacs and pneumaticity in the African grey parrot. Journal of Anatomy. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14146

Schachner, E. R. Moore, A., Martinez, A., Diaz, R., Echols, M., Atterholt, J., Kissane, R., Hedrick, B. P., and Bates, K. In Press. The respiratory system influences flight mechanics in soaring birds. Nature. 630, 671–676 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07485-y 

Orkney, A. and Hedrick, B. P. 2024. Avian miniaturization is associated with an evolutionary reorganization of skeletal modules. Nature Communications. 15: 4208. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48324-y

Rummel, A. D., Sheehy, E.*, Schachner, E. R., and Hedrick, B. P. 2024. Sample size and geometric morphometrics methodology impact the evaluation of morphological variation. Integrative Organismal Biology 6(1): obae002. https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obae002

2023

Hedrick, B. P. 2023. Dots on a Screen: The Past, Present, and Future of Morphometrics in the Study of Dinosaurs. 2023. The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25183

Hedrick, B. P., Estrada, A., Sutherland, S., Barbosa, A. M. 2023. Northward shifts in dispersal limited eastern red-backed salamanders due to changing climate. Ecology and Evolution. 13(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9999

Ford, K. L., Albert, J. S., Summers, A. P., Hedrick, B. P., Schachner, E. R., Jones, A. S., Evans, K., and Chakrabarty, P. 2023. A new era of morphological investigations: Scanning methods have shifted the paradigm for rigorous anatomical investigations. Integrative Organismal Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obad008

 

Mutumi, G., Hall, R.*, Hedrick, B. P., Yohe, L. R., Sadier, A., Davies, K. T. J., Rossiter, S. J., Sears, K. E., Dávalos, L. M., Dumont, E. R. 2023. Disentangling biomechanical and sensory modules in a hyper-diverse radiation. The American Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1086/725368.

Dempsey, M.*, Maidment, S. C. R., Hedrick, B. P., and Bates, K. T. 2023. Convergent evolution of quadrupedality in ornithischian dinosaurs was achieved through disparate forelimb muscle mechanics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (290). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2435

Schachner, E. R., Lawson, A., Martinez, A., Grand Pre, A., Sabottke, C., Abou-Issa, F., Echols, M., Diaz Jr., R., Moore, A., Grenier, J-P., Hedrick, B. P., and Spieler, B. 2023. Perspectives on lung visualization: Three-dimensional anatomical modeling of computed and micro-computed tomographic data in comparative evolutionary biology and medicine with applications for COVID-19. The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25300

Grand Pré C. A., Thielicke W., Diaz Jr, R. E., Hedrick, B. P., Elsey, R. M., and Schachner, E. R. 2023. Validating osteological correlates for the hepatic piston in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). PeerJ 11: e16542 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16542

Anthwal, N., Hall, R., Aneudy de la Rosa Hernandez, F., Koger, M., Yohe, L., Hedrick, B. P., Davies, K., Mutumi, G., Roseman, C., Dumont, E., Davalos, L., Rossiter, S., Sadier, A., and Sears, K. 2023. Cochlea development shapes bat sensory system evolution. The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25353

2022

Frank, T.*, Dodson, P., and Hedrick, B. P. 2022. Correlating avian hindlimb function and pelvic morphology using geometric morphometrics. Journal of Morphology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21479

Yohe, L. R., Fabbri, M., Lee, D., Davies, K. T. J., Yohe, T. P., Sánchez, M. K. R., Rengifo, E. M., Hall, R., Mutumi, G., Hedrick, B. P., Sadier, A., Simmons, N. B., Sears, K. E., Dumont, E., Rossiter, S. J., Bhullar, B-A. S., Dávalos, L. M. 2022. Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in Neotropical bats. Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14591

Greenwood, J.*, Lara Granados, G.*, Secor, S., Todd, B., Showalter, I., Hedrick, B. P., and Brennan, P. L. R. 2022. Divergent genital morphologies and female-male covariation in watersnakes. Journal of Integrative and Comparative

Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac020

Schachner, E. R., Diaz, R., Coke, R., Echols, M., Osborn, M., and Hedrick, B. P. 2022. Architecture of the bronchial tree in Cuvier’s dwarf caiman. The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24919

Lara Granados, G.*, Greenwood, J.*, Secor, S. M., Shan, S., Hedrick, B. P., and Brennan, P. L. R. 2022. First examination of the shape and size of female and male genitalia in snakes using three dimensional geometric morphometrics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac051

2021

Hedrick, B. P. 2021. Inter- and intraspecific variation in the Artibeus species complex demonstrates size and shape partitioning among species. PeerJ 9:e11777 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11777

Hedrick, B. P., Schachner, E. R., and Dodson, P. 2021. Alligator appendicular architecture across an ontogenetic niche shift. The Anatomical Record https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24717

Lawson, A. B.*, Hedrick, B. P., Echols, M. S., and Schachner, E. R. 2021. Anatomy, variation, and asymmetry of the bronchial tree in the African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus). Journal of Morphology 282: 701–719. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21340

Hedrick, B. P., Bancroft, G.*, Riand, F.*, and Sutherland, C. 2021. Effects of coverboard age and aging on salamander usage. Herpetological Review 51(1).

Schachner, E. R. Hedrick, B. P., Richbourg, H. A., Hutchinson, J. R., and Farmer, C. G. 2021. Anatomy, ontogeny, and evolution of the archosaurian respiratory system: A case study on Alligator mississippiensis and Struthio camelus. Journal of Anatomy. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13358

Hall, R. P.*, Mutumi, G. L., Hedrick, B. P., Yohe, L. R., Sadier, A., Davies, K. T. J., Rossiter, S. J., Sears, K., Dávalos, L. M., and Dumont, E. R. 2021. Find the food first: an omnivorous sensory morphotype predates biomechanical specialization for plant based diets in phyllostomid bats. Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14270

2020

Hedrick, B. P., Heberling, M., Meineke, E., Turner, K., Grassa, C., Kennedy, J., Park, D., Clarke, J., Cook, J., Blackburn, D.,  Edwards, S., and Davis, C. 2020. Digitization and the future of natural history collections. BioScience biz 163. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz163.

Hedrick, B. P., Dickson, B., Dumont, E. R., Pierce, S. E. 2020. The Evolutionary Success of Rodents Is Not Linked to the Evolution of Locomotor Innovation. Scientific Reports 10:717. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57144-w

Orbach, D. N., Brennan, P. L. R., Hedrick, B. P., Keener, W., Webber, M. A., and Mesnick, S. L. 2020. Asymmetric and spiraled genitalia coevolve with unique lateralized mating behavior. Scientific Reports 10: 3257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60287-w

Hedrick, B. P. and Dodson, P. 2020. Paleobiology in the 21st Century. The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24384

Maidment, S., Sennikov, A. G., Ezcurra, M., Dunne, E., Gower, D., Hedrick, B. P., Meade, L. E., Raven, T., Paschchenko, D. I., and Butler, R. 2020. The postcranial skeleton of the erythrosuchid archisauriform Garjainia prima from the Early Triassic of European Russia. Royal Society Open Science. 7: 201089. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201089

2019

Hedrick, B. P., Vander Linden, A.*, Cox, S., Watt, E., O’Roark, P., Cordero, S. A, Sutherland, C. 2019. Keeping salamanders off the streets: An assessment of one of the first amphibian road tunnels in the United States 30 years after installation. Journal of Urban Ecology 5(1): https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juz023

Hedrick, B. P., Mutumi, G. L., Munteanu, V. D.*, Sadier, A., Davies, K. T. J., Rossiter, S. J., Sears, K. E., Dávalos, L. M., Dumont, E. R. 2019. Morphological diversification under high integration in a hyper diverse mammal clade. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 27:563–575. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-019-09472-x

Butler, R. J., Sennikov, A. G., Dunne, E. M., Ezcurra, M. D., Hedrick, B. P., Maidment, S. C. R., Meade, L. E., Raven, T. J., Gower, D. J. 2019. Cranial anatomy and taxonomy of the erythrosuchid archosauriform ‘Vjushkovia triplicostata’ Huene, 1960, from the Early Triassic of European Russia. Royal Society Open Science. 6: 1911289. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191289

Hedrick, B. P., Cordero, S. A., Zanno, L. E., Noto, C., Dodson, P. 2019. Quantifying shape and ecology in avian pedal claws: the relationship between the bony core and keratinous sheath. Ecology and Evolution. 9:11545–11556. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5507

Hedrick, B. P., Goldsmith, E.*, Tumarkin-Deratzian, A. R., Rivera-Sylva, H., and Dodson, P. 2019. Filling in gaps in the ceratopsid histologic database: Long bone histology of two basal centrosaurines. Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24099

Hedrick, B. P., Antalek-Schrag, P.*, Conith, A. J., Natanson, L., and Brennan, P. L. R. 2019. High variance and asymmetry in the shape of the Spiny Dogfish Shark vagina revealed by 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics. Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12653

Hedrick, B. P., Schachner, E. R. Rivera, G., Dodson, P., and Pierce, S. E. 2019. The effects of skeletal asymmetry on biological variation in the fossil record. Paleobiology 45(1): 154–166. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2018.42

2018

Sadier, A., Davies, K. T. J., Yun, K., Yohe, L. R., Donat, P., Hedrick, B. P., Dumont, E. R., Dávalos, L. M., Rossiter, S. J., and Sears, K. E. 2018. Evidence for multifactorial processes underlying phenotypic variation in bat visual opsins. eLife 7: e37412. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37412

Hedrick, B. P. and Dumont, E. R. 2018. Putting the Leaf-Nosed Bats in Context: A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of the Skulls and Jaws of the Three Largest Families of Bats. Journal of Mammalogy 99 (5): 1042–1054. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy101

Hedrick, B. P., Yohe, L., Vander Linden, A.*, Davalos, L., Sears, K., Sadier, A., Rossiter, S. J., Davies, K. T. J. and Dumont, E. 2018. Assessing Soft-Tissue Shrinkage Estimates in Museum Specimens Imaged With Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (diceCT). Microscopy and Microanalysis 24 (3): 284–291. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927618000399

Vander Linden, A.*, Hedrick, B. P., Kamilar, J., and Dumont, E. R. 2018. Atlas morphology, scaling, and locomotor behavior in primates, rodents, and relatives (Mammalia: Euarchontoglires). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: 185 (1): 283–299.  https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly042

Liu, B., Han, S., Hedrick, B. P., Modarres-Sadeghi, Y., Lynch, M. E. 2018. Perfusion applied to a 3D model of bone metastasis results in evenly dispersed mechanical stimuli. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 115 (4): 1076-1085. doi: 10.1002/bit.26524

Orbach, D. N., Hedrick, B. P., Würsig, B., Mesnick, S. L., and Brennan, P. L. R. 2018. The Evolution of Genital Shape Variation in Female Cetaceans. Evolution 72(2): 261–273. doi: 10.1111/evo.13395

2016

Anné, J., Hedrick, B. P., and Schein, J. P. 2016. First diagnosis of septic arthritis in a dinosaur. Royal Society Open Science 3: 160222. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160222

Hedrick, B. P., Gao, C. Tumarkin-Deratzian, A. R., Shen, C., Holloway, J., Zhang, F., Hankenson, K. D., Liu, S., Anné, J., and Dodson, P. 2016. An injured Psittacosaurus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) from the Yixian Formation (Liaoning, China): Implications for Psittacosaurus biology. The Anatomical Record 299(7) 897–906. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23363

Rivera-Sylva, H. E., Hedrick, B. P., Dodson, P. 2016. A new centrosaurine (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) from the Aguja Formation (Late Campanian) of northern Coahuila, Mexico. PLoS One 11(4): e0150529. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150529

Foth, C., Hedrick, B. P., and Ezcurra, M. D. 2016. Cranial ontogenetic variation in early saurischians and the role of heterochrony in the diversification of predatory dinosaurs. PeerJ 4: e1589. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1589

Zhao, B., Hedrick, B. P., Gao, C., Tumarkin-Deratzian, A. R., Zhang, F., Shen, C., and Dodson, P. 2016. Histologic examination of an assemblage of Psittacosaurus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) juveniles from the Yixian Formation (Liaoning, China). The Anatomical Record 299(5): 601–612. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23324

2015

Hedrick, B. P., Manning, P. L., Lynch, E. R., Cordero, S. A.*, and Dodson, P. 2015. The geometry of taking flight: limb morphometrics in Mesozoic theropods. Journal of Morphology. 276:152–166. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20329

Hedrick, B. P., Zanno, L. E., Wolfe, D. G., and Dodson, P. 2015. The slothful claw: Osteology and taphonomy of  Nothronychus mckinleyi and graffami (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and anatomical considerations for derived therizinosaurids. PLoSONE 10(6): e0129449. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129449

2014

Hedrick, B. P., Tumarkin-Deratzian, A., and Dodson, P. 2014. Bone microstructure and relative age of the holotype specimen of the diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur Suuwassea emilieae. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59 (2): 295–304. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0049

Hedrick, B. P., Gao, C., Omar, G. I., Zhang, F., Shen, C., and Dodson, P. 2014. The osteology and taphonomy of a Psittacosaurus bonebed assemblage. Cretaceous Research 51: 321–340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2014.06.015

2013

Hedrick, B. P. and Dodson, P. 2013. Lujiatun psittacosaurids: understanding individual and taphonomic variation using 3D geometric morphometrics. PLoS ONE. 8(8) e69265. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069265

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