Avineck

Avineck project leader Anick Abourachid & colleagues will give an oral presentation on "The neck of the birds, from form to function". Avineck students Léa Terray and Olivia Plateau will present their work on the modularity and diversity of the bird's neck.

Avineck postdoc Christine Böhmer and her colleague Emily Buchholtz organized a symposium on the "The axial skeleton: diversity, patterning and function". They compiled an excellent list of invited speakers who will present on various aspects concerning the vertebral column. The symposium is kindly supported by the Company of Biologists. Christine has also been invited as speaker to another ICVM symposium on "Natural selection and the evolution of phenotypic integration" organized by Catalina I. Villamil and Patrick Arnold.

The Journal of Morphology has published the ICVM12 Abstract Volume. It is free to view and download: [Here].

References:

Abourachid A, Cornette R and Böhmer C (2019) The neck of the birds, from form to function. Journal of Morphology 280 S46 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21003. Supplement: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Prague (invited symposium contribution).

Böhmer C (2019) He would forget his head if it wasn’t screwed on: The neck as key innovation in tetrapod evolution. Journal of Morphology 280 S13. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21003. Supplement: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Prague (invited symposium contribution).

Böhmer C and Buchholtz E (2019) The axial skeleton: diversity, patterning and function. Journal of Morphology 280 S46-S50 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21003. Supplement: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Prague (Organized symposium).

Böhmer C, Plateau O, Cornette R and Abourachid A (2019) Correlated evolution of neck length and leg length in birds. Royal Society Open Science 6: 181588. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181588.

Böhmer C, Rauhut OWM and Wörheide G (2015) Correlation between Hox code and vertebral morphology in archosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 20150077. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0077.

Terray L, Plateau O, Abourachid A, Böhmer C,Delapre A, De La Bernardie X and Cornette R (2019) Modularity and diversity of the bird’s neck: a 3D-geometric morphometric approach of cervical vertebrae. Journal of Morphology 280 S228. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21003. Supplement: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Prague.