By Dr Laura A. B. Wilson

Book Chapters

Wilson LA; Geiger M, 2015, 'Diversity and evolution of femoral variation in Ctenohystrica', in Evolution of the Rodents Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development, Cambridge University Press, pp. 510 - 538

Journal articles

Wyatt B; Anderson A; Ward S; Wilson LAB, 2025, 'A generative model for exploring differences in mortality associated with stressor exposure risk in bioarchaeological contexts', Journal of Archaeological Science, 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106275

Hand SJ; Wilson LAB; López-Aguirre C; Houssaye A; Archer M; Bevitt JJ; Evans AR; Halim AY; Hung T; Rich TH; Vickers-Rich P; Beck RMD, 2025, 'Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia)', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413569122

Wilson LAB; Bourke J; Koyabu D, 2025, 'Anatomical variations in hearing and sound production in amniotes', Journal of Anatomy, 246, pp. 327 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa.14215

Pommery Y; Koyabu D; Meguro F; Tu VT; Ngamprasertwong T; Wannaprasert T; Nojiri T; Wilson LAB, 2025, 'Prenatal growth patterns of the upper jaw complex with implications for laryngeal echolocation in bats', Journal of Anatomy, 246, pp. 345 - 362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa.14165

Meguro F; Higashiyama H; Pommery Y; Wilson LAB; Tu VT; Nojiri T; Fukui D; Koyabu D, 2025, 'The development of orofacial complex in bats: Implications for orofacial clefting', Journal of Anatomy, 246, pp. 331 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa.14173

Wilson LAB; Clemente CJ, 2025, 'The next chapter for the Australian Journal of Zoology', Australian Journal of Zoology, 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo24039

Holvast EJ; Celik MA; Phillips MJ; Wilson LAB, 2024, 'Do morphometric data improve phylogenetic reconstruction? A systematic review and assessment', BMC Ecology and Evolution, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02313-3

Brualla NLM; Wilson LAB; Tu VT; Nojiri T; Carter RT; Ngamprasertwong T; Wannaprasert T; Doube M; Fukui D; Koyabu D, 2024, 'Comparative anatomy of the vocal apparatus in bats and implications for the diversity of laryngeal echolocation', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad180

Wilson LAB; Lynch JT; Ménard JM; Galvin CR; Smith PN, 2024, 'Sex differences in patellar facet shape among healthy and osteoarthritic cohorts', Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 32, pp. 1433 - 1442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2024.06.018

Wyatt B; Anderson A; Ward S; Wilson LAB, 2024, 'What's luck got to do with it? A generative model for examining the role of stochasticity in age-at-death, with implications for bioarchaeology', American Journal of Human Biology, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24115

Brualla NLM; Wilson LAB; Tu VT; Carter RT; Koyabu D, 2024, '3D models related to the publication: Comparative anatomy of the vocal apparatus in bats and implication for the diversity of laryngeal echolocation.', MorphoMuseuM, 10, pp. e219 - e219, http://dx.doi.org/10.18563/journal.m3.219

Ward SM; Balolia KL; Wilson LAB, 2023, 'A preliminary analysis of the effectiveness of online practical laboratory delivery using 3D models for higher education courses in biological anthropology', Evolution Education and Outreach, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12052-023-00190-w

Nakagawa S; Ivimey-Cook ER; Grainger MJ; O’Dea RE; Burke S; Drobniak SM; Gould E; Macartney EL; Martinig AR; Morrison K; Paquet M; Pick JL; Pottier P; Ricolfi L; Wilkinson DP; Willcox A; Williams C; Wilson LAB; Windecker SM; Yang Y; Lagisz M, 2023, 'Method Reporting with Initials for Transparency (MeRIT) promotes more granularity and accountability for author contributions', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37039-1

Wilson LAB; López-Aguirre C; Archer M; Hand SJ; Flores D; Abdala F; Giannini NP, 2023, 'Patterns of ontogenetic evolution across extant marsupials reflect different allometric pathways to ecomorphological diversity', Nature Communications, 14, pp. 2689, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38365-0

Wyatt B; McFadden C; Ward S; Wilson LAB, 2023, 'Assessing the association of skeletal indicators of stress with mean age-at-death in sub-adults', American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 182, pp. 440 - 451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24833

Wilson LAB, 2023, 'Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive', Current Biology, 33, pp. R429 - R431, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.057

Gleeson BT; Wilson LAB, 2023, 'Shared reproductive disruption, not neural crest or tameness, explains the domestication syndrome', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2464

Brualla NLM; Wilson LAB; Doube M; Carter RT; McElligott AG; Koyabu D, 2023, 'Correction to: The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats? (Journal of Mammalian Evolution, (2023), 30, 1, (79-94), 10.1007/s10914-022-09647-z)', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30, pp. 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-023-09655-7

Brualla NLM; Wilson LAB; Doube M; Carter RT; McElligott AG; Koyabu D, 2023, 'The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats?', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30, pp. 79 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09647-z

Beck RMD; Louys J; Nguyen JMT; Travouillon KJ; Wilson LAB, 2023, 'Australian time traveller: papers in honour of Mike Archer', Alcheringa, 47, pp. 367 - 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2195912

Giannini NP; Abdala F; Flores DA; Wilson LAB, 2023, 'Ontogenetic allometry reveals the imprint of myrmecophagy in the skull of the numbat, Myrmecobius fasciatus Waterhouse, 1836 (Marsupialia: Myrmecobiidae)', Alcheringa, 47, pp. 662 - 670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2153268

Ballard JOW; Field MA; Edwards RJ; Wilson LAB; Koungoulos LG; Rosen BD; Chernoff B; Dudchenko O; Omer A; Keilwagen J; Skvortsova K; Bogdanovic O; Chan E; Zammit R; Hayes V; Aiden EL, 2023, 'The Australasian dingo archetype: de novo chromosome-length genome assembly, DNA methylome, and cranial morphology', Gigascience, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad018

Wilson LAB, 2022, 'Developmental instability in domesticated mammals', Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 338, pp. 484 - 494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23108

Wyatt B; McFadden C; Ward S; Wilson LAB, 2022, 'Exploring associations between presence of skeletal indicators of disease and sub-adult mortality', Journal of Archaeological Science, 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105693

Wilson LAB; Zajitschek SRK; Lagisz M; Mason J; Haselimashhadi H; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Sex differences in allometry for phenotypic traits in mice indicate that females are not scaled males', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35266-6

White JM; DeSantis LRG; Evans AR; Wilson LAB; McCurry MR, 2021, 'A panda-like diprotodontid? Assessing the diet of Hulitherium tomasettii using dental complexity (Orientation Patch Count Rotated) and dental microwear texture analysis', Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 583, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110675

Giannini NP; Morales MM; Wilson LAB; Velazco PM; Abdala F; Flores DA, 2021, 'The Cranial Morphospace of Extant Marsupials', Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 28, pp. 1145 - 1160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-021-09589-y

López-Aguirre C; Wilson LAB; Koyabu D; Tu VT; Hand SJ, 2021, 'Variation in cross-sectional shape and biomechanical properties of the bat humerus under Wolff's law', Anatomical Record, 304, pp. 1937 - 1952, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.24620

Wilson LAB; Balcarcel A; Geiger M; Heck L; Sánchez-Villagra MR, 2021, 'Modularity patterns in mammalian domestication: Assessing developmental hypotheses for diversification', Evolution Letters, 5, pp. 385 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evl3.231

López-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Koyabu D; Tu VT; Wilson LAB; Lopez-Aguirre C, 2021, 'Phylogeny and foraging behaviour shape modular morphological variation in bat humeri', Journal of Anatomy, 238, pp. 1312 - 1329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa.13380

López-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Koyabu D; Tu VT; Wilson LAB, 2021, 'Prenatal Developmental Trajectories of Fluctuating Asymmetry in Bat Humeri', Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 9, pp. 639522, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.639522

Nojiri T; Wilson LAB; López-Aguirre C; Tu VT; Kuratani S; Ito K; Higashiyama H; Son NT; Fukui D; Sadier A; Sears KE; Endo H; Kamihori S; Koyabu D, 2021, 'Embryonic evidence uncovers convergent origins of laryngeal echolocation in bats', Current Biology, 31, pp. 1353 - 1365.e3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.043

Swan KR; Ives R; Wilson LAB; Humphrey LT, 2020, 'Ontogenetic changes in femoral cross-sectional geometry during childhood locomotor development', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 173, pp. 80 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24080

Stein M; Hand S; Archer M; Wroe S; Wilson L, 2020, 'Quantitatively assessing mekosuchine crocodile locomotion by geometric morphometric and finite element analysis of the forelimb', PeerJ, 2020, pp. e9349, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9349

Wilson LAB; De Groote I; Humphrey LT, 2020, 'Sex differences in the patterning of age-related bone loss in the human hallucal metatarsal in rural and urban populations', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 171, pp. 628 - 644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24002

Tsang LR; Wilson LAB; Ledogar J; Wroe S; Attard M; Sansalone G, 2019, 'Raptor talon shape and biomechanical performance are controlled by relative prey size but not by allometry', Scientific Reports, 9, pp. 7076, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43654-0

Tsang LR; Wilson LAB; McDonald PG, 2019, 'Comparing the toepads of Australian diurnal and nocturnal raptors with nonpredatory taxa: Insights into functional morphology', Journal of Morphology, 280, pp. 1682 - 1692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21057

Montoya-Sanhueza G; Wilson LAB; Chinsamy A, 2019, 'Postnatal development of the largest subterranean mammal (Bathyergus suillus): Morphology, osteogenesis, and modularity of the appendicular skeleton', Developmental Dynamics, 248, pp. 1101 - 1128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.81

López-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Koyabu D; Son NT; Wilson LAB; Lopez-Aguirre C, 2019, 'Postcranial heterochrony, modularity, integration and disparity in the prenatal ossification in bats (Chiroptera)', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19, pp. 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1396-1

Ballard JWO; Wilson LAB, 2019, 'The Australian dingo: Untamed or feral?', Frontiers in Zoology, 16, pp. 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-019-0300-6

López-Aguirre C; Hand SJ; Koyabu D; Son NT; Wilson LAB; Lopez-Aguirre C, 2019, 'Prenatal allometric trajectories and the developmental basis of postcranial phenotypic diversity in bats (Chiroptera)', Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 332, pp. 36 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.22846

Bush AM; Louys J; Wilson LAB; Rumford JP, 2019, 'Reaffirming the Palaeontologia Electronica brand: A note on changes to publication priorities', Palaeontologia Electronica, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/191E

Veitschegger K; Wilson LAB; Nussberger B; Camenisch G; Keller LF; Wroe S; Sánchez-Villagra MR, 2018, 'Resurrecting Darwin's Niata - Anatomical, biomechanical, genetic, and morphometric studies of morphological novelty in cattle', Scientific Reports, 8, pp. 9129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27384-3

Stange M; Núñez-León D; Sánchez-Villagra MR; Jensen P; Wilson LAB, 2018, 'Morphological variation under domestication: How variable are chickens?', Royal Society Open Science, 5, pp. 180993, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180993

Heck L; Wilson LAB; Evin A; Stange M; Sánchez-Villagra MR, 2018, 'Shape variation and modularity of skull and teeth in domesticated horses and wild equids', Frontiers in Zoology, 15, pp. 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0258-9

Wilson LAB, 2018, 'The evolution of ontogenetic allometric trajectories in mammalian domestication', Evolution, 72, pp. 867 - 877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.13464

Schweizer A; Lebrun R; Wilson LAB; Costeur L; Sanchez-Villagra MR, 2017, '3D models related to the publication: Size Variation under Domestication: Conservatism in the inner ear shape of wolves, dogs and dingoes', MorphoMuseum, 3, pp. e1 - e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13523-9.

Schweizer AV; Lebrun R; Wilson LAB; Costeur L; Schmelzle T; Sánchez-Villagra MR, 2017, '3D models related to the publication: Size Variation under Domestication: Conservatism in the inner ear shape of wolves, dogs and dingoes', MorphoMuseuM, 3, pp. e1 - e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.18563/m3.3.4.e1

Schweizer AV; Lebrun R; Wilson LAB; Costeur L; Schmelzle T; Sánchez-Villagra MR, 2017, 'Size Variation under Domestication: Conservatism in the inner ear shape of wolves, dogs and dingoes', Scientific Reports, 7, pp. 13330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13523-9

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