Search Results - "Tafforeau, Paul"

Accessing developmental information of fossil hominin teeth using new synchrotron microtomography-based visualization techniques of dental surfaces and interfaces by Le Cabec, Adeline, Tang, Nancy, Tafforeau, Paul

“…Quantification of dental long-period growth lines (Retzius lines in enamel and Andresen lines in dentine) and matching of stress patterns (internal accentuated…”
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A parasitic coevolution since the Miocene revealed by phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography and the study of natural history collections by Perreau, Michel, Haelewaters, Danny, Tafforeau, Paul

“…The discovery of a new fossil species of the Caribbeo-Mexican genus Proptomaphaginus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) from Dominican amber, associated with…”
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Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian by Yin, Zongjun, Zhu, Maoyan, Davidson, Eric H., Bottjer, David J., Zhao, Fangchen, Tafforeau, Paul

“…Significance Phylogenomic extrapolations indicate the last common ancestor of sponges and eumetazoans existed deep in the Cryogenian, perhaps 200 million years…”
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Marginal dentition and multiple dermal jawbones as the ancestral condition of jawed vertebrates by Vaškaninová, Valéria, Chen, Donglei, Tafforeau, Paul, Johanson, Zerina, Ekrt, Boris, Blom, Henning, Ahlberg, Per Erik

“…Teeth and jaws The first vertebrates were jawless, much like a modern hagfish. There has been a lot of interest in how these forms transitioned to having jaws…”
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Transition of Eocene whales from land to sea: evidence from bone microstructure by Houssaye, Alexandra, Tafforeau, Paul, de Muizon, Christian, Gingerich, Philip D

“…Cetacea are secondarily aquatic amniotes that underwent their land-to-sea transition during the Eocene. Primitive forms, called archaeocetes, include five…”
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Role of Ammonites in the Mesozoic Marine Food Web Revealed by Jaw Preservation by Kruta, Isabelle, Landman, Neil, Rouget, Isabelle, Cecca, Fabrizio, Tafforeau, Paul

“…Ammonites are prominent in macroevolutionary studies because of their abundance and diversity in the fossil record, but their paleobiology and position in the…”
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The stem osteichthyan Andreolepis and the origin of tooth replacement by Chen, Donglei, Blom, Henning, Sanchez, Sophie, Tafforeau, Paul, Ahlberg, Per E.

“…The teeth of gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) show rigidly patterned, unidirectional replacement that may or may not be associated with a shedding mechanism…”
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Neurocranial development of the coelacanth and the evolution of the sarcopterygian head by Dutel, Hugo, Galland, Manon, Tafforeau, Paul, Long, John A., Fagan, Michael J., Janvier, Philippe, Herrel, Anthony, Santin, Mathieu D., Clément, Gaël, Herbin, Marc

“…The neurocranium of sarcopterygian fishes was originally divided into an anterior (ethmosphenoid) and posterior (otoccipital) portion by an intracranial joint,…”
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Synchrotron "virtual archaeozoology" reveals how Ancient Egyptians prepared a decaying crocodile cadaver for mummification by Berruyer, Camille, Porcier, Stéphanie M, Tafforeau, Paul

“…Although Ancient Egyptians mummified millions of animals over the course of one millennium, many details of these mummification protocols remain unknown…”
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Life history of the stem tetrapod Acanthostega revealed by synchrotron microtomography by Sanchez, Sophie, Tafforeau, Paul, Clack, Jennifer A., Ahlberg, Per E.

“…Analysis of fossil limb bones suggests that a mass-death deposit of the Devonian tetrapod Acanthostega may consist entirely of juveniles, throwing new light on…”
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Dental ontogeny in pliocene and early pleistocene hominins by Smith, Tanya M, Tafforeau, Paul, Le Cabec, Adeline, Bonnin, Anne, Houssaye, Alexandra, Pouech, Joane, Moggi-Cecchi, Jacopo, Manthi, Fredrick, Ward, Carol, Makaremi, Masrour, Menter, Colin G

“…Until recently, our understanding of the evolution of human growth and development derived from studies of fossil juveniles that employed extant populations…”
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The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution by Ni, Xijun, Gebo, Daniel L., Dagosto, Marian, Meng, Jin, Tafforeau, Paul, Flynn, John J., Beard, K. Christopher

“…Reconstructing the earliest phases of primate evolution has been impeded by gaps in the fossil record, so that disagreements persist regarding the…”
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Reptile-like physiology in Early Jurassic stem-mammals by Newham, Elis, Gill, Pamela G., Brewer, Philippa, Benton, Michael J., Fernandez, Vincent, Gostling, Neil J., Haberthür, David, Jernvall, Jukka, Kankaanpää, Tuomas, Kallonen, Aki, Navarro, Charles, Pacureanu, Alexandra, Richards, Kelly, Brown, Kate Robson, Schneider, Philipp, Suhonen, Heikki, Tafforeau, Paul, Williams, Katherine A., Zeller-Plumhoff, Berit, Corfe, Ian J.

“…Despite considerable advances in knowledge of the anatomy, ecology and evolution of early mammals, far less is known about their physiology. Evidence is…”
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A deformation rig for synchrotron microtomography studies of geomaterials under conditions down to 10 km depth in the Earth by Renard, François, Cordonnier, Benoit, Dysthe, Dag K., Boller, Elodie, Tafforeau, Paul, Rack, Alexander

“…A hard X‐ray transparent triaxial deformation apparatus, called HADES, has been developed by Sanchez Technologies and installed on the microtomography beamline…”
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Deep learning for 3D vascular segmentation in hierarchical phase contrast tomography: a case study on kidney by Yagis, Ekin, Aslani, Shahab, Jain, Yashvardhan, Zhou, Yang, Rahmani, Shahrokh, Brunet, Joseph, Bellier, Alexandre, Werlein, Christopher, Ackermann, Maximilian, Jonigk, Danny, Tafforeau, Paul, Lee, Peter D., Walsh, Claire L.

“…Automated blood vessel segmentation is critical for biomedical image analysis, as vessel morphology changes are associated with numerous pathologies. Still,…”
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Wing bone geometry reveals active flight in Archaeopteryx by Voeten, Dennis F. A. E., Cubo, Jorge, de Margerie, Emmanuel, Röper, Martin, Beyrand, Vincent, Bureš, Stanislav, Tafforeau, Paul, Sanchez, Sophie

“…Archaeopteryx is an iconic fossil taxon with feathered wings from the Late Jurassic of Germany that occupies a crucial position for understanding the early…”
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Synchrotron imaging and Markov Chain Monte Carlo reveal tooth mineralization patterns by Green, Daniel R, Green, Gregory M, Colman, Albert S, Bidlack, Felicitas B, Tafforeau, Paul, Smith, Tanya M

“…The progressive character of tooth formation records aspects of mammalian life history, diet, seasonal behavior and climate. Tooth mineralization occurs in two…”
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The developmental relationship between teeth and dermal odontodes in the most primitive bony fish Lophosteus by Chen, Donglei, Blom, Henning, Sanchez, Sophie, Tafforeau, Paul, Märss, Tiiu, Ahlberg, Per E

“…The ontogenetic trajectory of a marginal jawbone of (Late Silurian, 422 Million years old), the phylogenetically most basal stem osteichthyan, visualized by…”
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Dental evidence for ontogenetic differences between modern humans and Neanderthals by Smith, Tanya M., Tafforeau, Paul, Reid, Donald J., Pouech, Joane, Lazzari, Vincent, Zermeno, John P., Guatelli-Steinberg, Debbie, Olejniczak, Anthony J., Hoffman, Almut, Radovčić, Jakov, Makaremi, Masrour, Toussaint, Michel, Stringer, Chris, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Klein, Richard G.

“…Humans have an unusual life history, with an early weaning age, long childhood, late first reproduction, short interbirth intervals, and long lifespan. In…”
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Disentangling isolated dental remains of Asian Pleistocene hominins and pongines by Smith, Tanya M, Houssaye, Alexandra, Kullmer, Ottmar, Le Cabec, Adeline, Olejniczak, Anthony J, Schrenk, Friedemann, de Vos, John, Tafforeau, Paul

“…Scholars have debated the taxonomic identity of isolated primate teeth from the Asian Pleistocene for over a century, which is complicated by morphological and…”
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