How Bone Adapts to Heavy Weight? Bone Morphological and Microanatomical Adaptation to the Mechanical Constraints Imposed by Graviportality

Project Information

GRAVIBONE

Grant agreement ID: 715300

DOI

10.3030/715300

Project closed

EC signature date 30 January 2017

Start date 1 April 2017

End date 31 March 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 082 450,00

EU contribution

€ 1 082 450,00

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CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

The potential and limits of Thin-Plate Spline retrodeformation on asymmetrical objects: simulation of taphonomic deformations and application on a fossil sample of limb long bones

Author(s): Romain PINTORE, Arnaud DELAPRÉ, Rémi LEFEBVRE, Léo BOTTON-DIVET, Alexandra HOUSSAYE & Raphaël CORNETTE
Published in: Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2022, ISSN 1631-0683
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a9

Femora from an exceptionally large population of coeval ornithomimosaurs yield evidence of sexual dimorphism in extinct theropod dinosaurs

Author(s): Pintore, R., Cornette, R., Houssaye, A., Allain, R
Published in: eLife, 2023, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.83413

Long bone shape variation in the forelimb of Rhinocerotoidea: relation with size, body mass and body proportions

Author(s): Christophe Mallet; Alexandra Houssaye; Raphaël Cornette; Guillaume Billet
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0024-4082
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab095

Disentangling biological variability and taphonomy: shape analysis of the limb long bones of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Plateosaurus

Author(s): Rémi Lefebvre​, Ronan Allain, Alexandra Houssaye, Raphaël Cornette
Published in: PeerJ, 2020, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9359

What’s inside a sauropod limb? First three-dimensional investigation of the limb long bone microanatomy of a sauropod dinosaur, Nigersaurus taqueti (Neosauropoda, Rebbachisauridae) and implications for weight-bearing function

Author(s): Lefebvre, R., Allain, R; & Houssaye, A.
Published in: Palaeontology, Issue 66, 2023, Page(s) e12670, ISSN 0031-0239
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12670

Limb myology and muscle architecture of the Indian rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis and the white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum (Mammalia: Rhinocerotidae)

Author(s): Cyril Etienne​, Alexandra Houssaye, John R. Hutchinson
Published in: PeerJ, 2021, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11314

Shape variation in the limb long bones of modern elephants reveals adaptations to body mass and habitat

Author(s): Camille Bader; Arnaud Delapré; Alexandra Houssaye
Published in: Crossref, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13827

Interspecific variation in the limb long bones among modern rhinoceroses—extent and drivers

Author(s): Christophe Mallet, Raphaël Cornette, Guillaume Billet, Alexandra Houssaye
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 7, 2019, Page(s) e7647, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7647

A first glimpse at the influence of body mass in the morphological integration of the limb long bones: an investigation in modern rhinoceroses

Author(s): Christophe Mallet, Guillaume Billet, Alexandra Houssaye, Raphaël Cornette
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, 2020, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13232

Influence of mass on tarsus shape variation: a morphometrical investigation among Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia: Perissodactyla)

Author(s): Cyril Etienne, Christophe Mallet, Raphaël Cornette, Alexandra Houssaye
Published in: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Issue 129/4, 2020, Page(s) 950-974, ISSN 0024-4066
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa005

What about limb long bone nutrient canal(s)? – a 3D investigation in mammals

Author(s): Alexandra Houssaye, Jocerand Prévoteau
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, Issue 236/3, 2019, Page(s) 510-521, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13121

A path to gigantism: Three‐dimensional study of the sauropodomorph limb long bone shape variation in the context of the emergence of the sauropod bauplan

Author(s): Rémi Lefebvre; Alexandra Houssaye; Heinrich Mallison; Raphaël Cornette; Ronan Allain
Published in: https://hal.science/hal-03784740, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13646

Paleoecological Inferences from Long Bone Microanatomical Specializations in Hippopotamoidea (Mammalia, Artiodactyla)

Author(s): Alexandra Houssaye, Florian Martin, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Fabrice Lihoreau
Published in: Journal of mammalian evolution, 2021, ISSN 1064-7554
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10914-021-09536-x

Femoral specializations to locomotor habits in early archosauriforms.

Author(s): Romain Pintore; Romain Pintore; Alexandra Houssaye; Sterling J. Nesbitt; John R. Hutchinson
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13598

Sesamoid bones also show functional adaptation in their microanatomy-The example of the patella in Perissodactyla.

Author(s): Alexandra Houssaye, Adrien de Perthuis, Guillaume Houée
Published in: Journal of anatomy, 2021, ISSN 1469-7580
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13530

Adaptation to graviportality in Rhinocerotoidea? An investigation through the long bone shape variation in their hindlimb

Author(s): Christophe Mallet; Guillaume Billet; Raphaël Cornette; And Alexandra Houssaye
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1096-3642
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac007

Effect of mass and habitat on the shape of limb long bones: A morpho-functional investigation on Bovidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla)

Author(s): Cyril Etienne, Andréa Filippo, Raphaël Cornette, Alexandra Houssaye
Published in: Journal of anatomy, 2020, ISSN 1469-7580
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13359