Email: swroe@une.edu.au

Dr Laura Wilson

Postdoctoral fellow
a: Biological Sciences Building (D26), University of New South Wales
p: +61 2 9385 3866
e: laura.wilson@unsw.edu.au
w: bees.unsw.edu.au/laura-wilson

Research interests:

  • Evolutionary morphology and palaeobiology of vertebrates
  • Macroevolutionary patterns of growth and development in mammals
  • Ontogenetic morphology of the mammalian cranium
  • Integrating palaeontology and evo-devo to inform our understanding of the evolution of development in deep time

 

  • I currently work as a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences. I'm supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
  • SCHOLARLY REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

    1. Attard MRG, Parr WCH, Wilson LAB, Archer M, Hand S, Rogers TL, Wroe, S. 2014. Virtual reconstruction, biomechanical modeling and prey size preference of the Australian mid Cenozoic thylacinid, Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia). PLOS ONE, 9 (4), e93088
    2. Werneburg I, Wilson LAB, Joyce WG. 2014. Evolution of neck vertebral shape and neck retraction at the transition to modern turtles: a geometric morphometric approach (in review)
    3. Wilson LAB, Geiger M. 2014. Diversity and evolution of femoral variation in Ctenohystrica. In: Evolution of the Rodents: Advances in Phylogenetics, Functional Morphology and Development. Cambridge Studies in Morphology and Molecules, New Paradigms in Evolutionary Biology (Eds: Hautier L, Cox PG). Cambridge University Press
    4. Maxwell EE, Wilson LAB. 2013. Regionalization of the axial skeleton in the 'ambush predator' guild - are there developmental rules underlying body shape evolution in ray-finned fishes? BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 265 (open access)
    5. Wilson LAB. 2013. Cranial suture closure patterns in Sciuridae: heterochrony and modularity. Journal of Mammalian Evolution (online early)
    6. Wilson LAB, Colombo M, Hanel R, Salzburger W, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2013. The evolution of opercular bone shape in Antarctic icefishes - a study of morphological disparity in an adaptive radiation. Ecology and Evolution 3(9): 3166-3182 (open access)
    7. Wilson LAB. 2013. Allometric disparity in rodent evolution. Ecology and Evolution 3(4): 971-984 (open access)
    8. Wilson LAB. 2013. Geographic variation in skull shape of the greater Japanese shrew-mole (Urotrichus talpoides): combining morphological and chromosomal variation patterns. Mammalian Biology 78: 267-275
    9. Geiger M, Wilson LAB, Costeur L, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2013. Diversity and growth in giant caviomorphs from the northern neotropics – a study of femoral variation in Phoberomys (Rodentia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6): 1449-1456
    10. Wilson LAB, Furrer H, Stockar R, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2013. A quantitative evaluation of evolutionary patterns in opercule bone shape in Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae). Palaeontology 56(4): 901-915
    11. Urdy S, Wilson LAB, Haug J, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2013. On the unique perspective on palaeontology in the study of developmental evolution and biases. Biological Theory 8: 293-311
    12. Wilson LAB, Madden RH, Kay RF, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2012. Testing a developmental model in the fossil record: molar proportions in South American ungulates. Paleobiology 38(2): 308-321
    13. Wilson LAB. 2011. The contributions of developmental palaeontology to evolutionary theory. Acta Zoologica 94(3): 254-260
    14. Wilson LAB. 2011. Comparison of prenatal and postnatal ontogeny: cranial allometry in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio. Journal of Mammalogy 92(2): 407-420
    15. Wilson LAB, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2011. The evolution and phylogenetic signal of growth trajectories: the case of chelid turtles. Journal of Experimental Zoology B (Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 316: 50-60
    16. Wilson LAB, Cardoso HFV, Humphrey LT. 2011. On the reliability of a geometric morphometric approach to sex determination: a blind test of six criteria for the juvenile ilium. Forensic Science International 206: 35-42
    17. Wilson LAB, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Diversity trends and their ontogenetic basis: an exploration of allometric disparity in rodents. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 227: 1227-1234
    18. Wilson LAB, Schradin C, Mitgutsch C, Galliari FC, Mess A, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Skeletogenesis in the African Striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) and a study of sequence heterochrony in rodent evolution Organisms Development and Evolution 10: 243-258
    19. Wilson LAB, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Heterochrony and patterns of cranial suture closure in hystricognath rodents. Journal of Anatomy 214: 339–354
    20. Wilson LA, MacLeod N, Humphrey LT. 2008. Morphometric criteria for sexing juvenile human skeletons using the ilium. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53(2): 269–278
  • 2012 - present SNF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
    2011 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University, Japan.
    2007-2010 PhD Natural Sciences, Palaeontologisches Institut und Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
    2006-2007 MRes Biosystematics, Imperial College and Natural History Museum London, UK.
    2002-2005 BSc Palaeobiology, University College London, UK.

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