Locomotion into New Niches: Limbs, Ecology, and Evolution in Mustelid Mammals

• Applicant: Brandon Kilbourne, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Systematics and Morphology (Zoology) ; Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy, Radiobiology ; Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: from 2015 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 269215105

• Final Report Year: 2022

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Publications

• 2019. Morphological diversification of biomechanical traits: mustelid locomotor specializations and the macroevolution of long bone cross-sectional morphology. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 37
  Kilbourne BM & Hutchinson JR
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1349-8)
• 2019. Trabecular bone architecture in the stylopod epiphyses of mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora). Royal Society Open Science 6: 190938
  Amson E & Kilbourne BM
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190938)
• 2020. Functional morphology and morphological diversification of hindlimb bone cross-sectional traits in mustelid mammals. Integrative Organismal Biology 2: obz032
  Parsi-Pour P & Kilbourne BM
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obz032)
• 2020. Variation in limb loading magnitude and timing in tetrapods. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb201525
  Granatosky MC, McElroy EJ, Lemelin P, Reilly SM, Nyakatura JA, Andrada E, Kilbourne BM, Allen VR, Butcher MT, Blob RW, & Ross CF
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.201525)
• 2021. Functional morphology and diversification of the mustelid hindlimb skeleton and the potential influence of differing limb functions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 132: 685-703
  Kilbourne BM
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa207)
• 2021. The evolution of pelvic limb muscle moment arms in bird-line archosaurs. Science Advances 7: eabe2778
  Allen VR, Kilbourne BM, & Hutchinson JR
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe2778)
• 2022. Cranial shape variation in mink: Separating two highly similar species. Journal of Anatomy 240: 210-225
  Gálvez-López E, Kilbourne BM, & Cox PG
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13554)