Evolutionary Morphology / Palaeobiology of Vertebrates / Cultural Macroevolution
The research group around Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra

Lab Publication List

Peer reviewed papers/Book chapters

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - pre Zürich

Goswami A, Weisbecker V, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2009) Developmental modularity and the marsupial-placental dichotomy. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 312B: 186-195.
Horovitz I, Martin T, Bloch J, Ladevèze S, Kurz C, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2009) Cranial anatomy of the earliest marsupials and the origin of opossums. PlosOne 4(12): e8278. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008278.
Johnson KG, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera O (2009) The Oligocene/Miocene transition on coral reefs in the Falcón Basin (NW Venezuela). Palaios 24: 59-69.
Joyce WG, Lucas SG, Scheyer TM, Heckert AB, Hunt AP (2009) A thin-shelled reptile from the Late Triassic of North America and the origin of the turtle shell. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 276: 507-513.
Klein N, Scheyer T, Tütken T (2009) Skeletochronology and isotopic analysis of a captive individual of Alligator mississippiensis Daudin, 1802. Fossil Record 12: 121-131.
Mitgutsch C, Olsson L, Haas A (2009) Early embryogenesis in discoglossoid frogs: a study of heterochrony at different taxonomic levels. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 47: 248-257.
Richardson MK, Gobes S, van Leeuwen A, Poelman A, Pieau C, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2009) Heterochrony in Limb Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms and Natural Selection. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 312B: 639-664.
Sánchez-Villagra MR, Müller H, Sheil CA, Scheyer TM, Nagashima H, Kuratani S (2009) Skeletal Development in the Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis (Reptilia: Testudines: Trionychidae). Journal of Morphology 270: 1381-1399.
Scheyer TM (2009) Conserved bone microstructure of the shells of long-necked and short-necked chelid turtles (Testudinata: Pleurodira). Fossil Record 12: 47-57.
Scheyer TM, Sander PM (2009) Bone microstructures and mode of skeletogenesis in osteoderms of three pareiasaur taxa from the Permian of South Africa. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(6):1153-1162.
Werneburg I (2009) A standard system to study vertebrate embryos. PLoS One 4: e5887 [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005887].
Werneburg I (2009) Vergleichende Morphologie der Kiefermuskulatur der Beloniformes (Teleostei, Atherinomorpha). Verlag Dr. Müller Saarbrücken, ISBN: 978-3-639-19302-2.
Werneburg I, Hertwig S (2009) Head morphology of the ricefish, Oryzias latipes (Teleostei: Beloniformes). Journal of Morphology 270: 1095-1106.
Werneburg I, Hugi J, Müller J, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2009) Embryogenesis and ossification of Emydura subglobosa (Testudines, Pleurodira, Chelidae) and patterns of turtle development. Developmental Dynamics 238: 2770-2786.
Werneburg I, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2009) Timing of organogenesis support basal position of turtles in the amniote tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 82.
Wilson LAB, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2009) Heterochrony and patterns of cranial suture closure in hystricognath rodents. Journal of Anatomy 214: 339-354.