Evolution of Morphology in Reptiles
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 5417
Special Issue Editors
Interests: allometry; comparative anatomy; evolutionary biology; osteology; snakes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in the methods used to study animal morphology have opened a new era in anatomical research. They enable the observation and analysis of anatomical structures in unprecedented detail. However, ‘old-school’ morphological methods, such as the simple observation of specimens, are still providing very important contributions to the field.
Reptiles are an extremely diverse group, containing over 11,000 living species (this figure does not include another 11,000 species that are the direct descendants of reptiles—birds) and a fossil record that spans far beyond 300 million years. It is thus no surprise that they are emerging as a model group to study the evolution of morphology. Numerous independent losses of limbs, origins of viviparity, returns to aquatic habitats—to name just a few fascinating topics—and the morphological changes associated with these transitions are still in need of being studied.
This Special Issue on the “Evolution of Morphology in Reptiles” seeks to provide a collection of articles that explore this topic from different perspectives, from ‘classical’, neontological anatomy, through paleontology, to the study of developmental processes that underlie this huge diversity of morphologies that we can observe in reptiles.
Dr. Bartosz Borczyk
Dr. Tomasz Skawiński
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adaptations
- anatomy
- comparative anatomy
- development
- eco-morphology
- evolution
- fossils
- morphology
- osteology
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