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

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Peer reviewed articles (9)

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

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

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, 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, 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, 236/3, 2019, Page(s) 510-521, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13121

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

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

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