ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Testing hypotheses for the function of the carnivoran baculum using finite-element analysis.
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- Fossil bacula of five species of Borophaginae (Family: Canidae): Implications for their reproductive biology.PloS one · 2023Article
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- A Review and Case Study of 3D Imaging Modalities for Female Amniote Reproductive Anatomy.Integrative and comparative biology · 2022Article
- The ultimate database to (re)set the evolutionary history of primate genital bones.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Postcopulatory sexual selection and the evolution of shape complexity in the carnivoran baculum.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- CT characterisation of the feline os penis.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2020Article
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The baculum (os penis) is a mineralized bone within the glans of the mammalian penis and is one of the most morphologically diverse structures in the mammal skeleton. Recent experimental work provides compelling evidence for sexual selection shaping the baculum, yet the functional mechanism by which this occurs remains unknown. Previous studies have tested biomechanical hypotheses for the role of the baculum based on simple metrics such as length and diameter, ignoring the wealth of additional shape complexity present. For the first time, to our knowledge, we apply a computational simulation approach (finite-element analysis; FEA) to quantify the three-dimensional biomechanical performance of carnivoran bacula (
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