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Duque-Correa, MJ, Clauss, M, Meloro, C and Abraham, AJ (2024) Does intestine length explain digesta retention times in birds and mammals? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, 300. ISSN 1095-6433

Russo, LF, Loy, A, Lanzetti, A, Goswami, A and Meloro, C (2024) Exploring fluctuating asymmetry in two recovering populations of the Eurasian otter. Biology letters, 20 (9). ISSN 1744-9561

Serio, C, Brown, RP, Clauss, M and Meloro, C (2024) Morphological disparity of mammalian limb bones throughout the Cenozoic: the role of biotic and abiotic factors. Palaeontology, 67 (4). ISSN 0031-0239

Serio, C, Brown, RP, Clauss, M and Meloro, C (2024) Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analyses of humerus ecomorphology: New perspectives for paleohabitat reconstruction in carnivorans and ungulates. The Anatomical Record. ISSN 1932-8486

Charters, D, Brown, RP, Abrams, G, Di Modica, K, Pirson, S, De Groote, I, Ghiraldi, L and Meloro, C (2024) Mandibular ecomorphology in the genus ursus (Ursidae, Carnivora): relevance for the palaeoecological adaptations of cave bears (U. spelaeus) from Scladina cave. Historical Biology. pp. 1-15. ISSN 0891-2963

Lacy, H, De Cuyper, A, Dalerum, F, Tosoni, E, Clauss, M, Ciucci, P and Meloro, C (2024) Estimating body condition of Apennine brown bears using subjective scoring based on camera trap photographs. Mammal Research, 69. pp. 355-364. ISSN 2199-2401

Crampton, DA, Giacomini, G and Meloro, C (2024) Mandibular morphology in four species of insectivorous bats: the impact of sexual dimorphism and geographical differentiation. Journal of Zoology. ISSN 0952-8369

Duque-Correa, MJ, Clements, KD, Meloro, C, Ronco, F, Boila, A, Indermaur, A, Salzburger, W and Clauss, M (2024) Diet and habitat as determinants of intestine length in fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 34 (3). pp. 1017-1034. ISSN 0960-3166 (Accepted)

Wang, L, Meloro, C, Fagan, MJ, Kissane, RWP, Bates, KT, Askew, GN and Watson, PJ (2024) Regional variation of the cortical and trabecular bone material properties in the rabbit skull. PLoS One, 19 (2). e0298621. ISSN 1932-6203

Galvez-Bravo, L, Perdices, A, De Miguel, RJ, Lambea-Camblor, Á, Penney, C, Meloro, C, Martinez-Cruz, B and Brown, RP (2023) Hybridization and invasive species in a threatened freshwater fish community under environmental pressures: Morphometric and molecular evidence. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. ISSN 1052-7613

Dalerum, F, Cipollone, M, Cordischi, F, Di Croce, A, Ferri, D, Giovannini, S, La Civita, F, Monaco, A, Paglione, G, Paniccia, C, Petriccione, B, Romano, M, Shivij, I, Trei, JN and Meloro, C (2023) Effects of phylogenetic associations on environmental and temporal niche partitioning among sympatric mammals. Basic and Applied Ecology, 74. pp. 98-107. ISSN 1439-1791

Brown, RP, Sun, H, Jin, Y and Meloro, C (2023) Habitat-associated genomic variation in a wall lizard from an oceanic island. Genome Biology and Evolution, 15 (11). evad193. ISSN 1759-6653

Vicedo, T, Meloro, C, Penteriani, V, García, J, Lamillar, MÁ, Marsella, E, Gómez, P, Cruz, A, Cano, B, Varas, MJ, Álvarez, E and Dalerum, F (2023) Temporal activity patterns of bears, wolves and humans in the Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 69 (100). ISSN 0044-2887

Tamagnini, D, Michaud, M, Meloro, C, Raia, P, Soibelzon, L, Tambusso, PS, Varela, L and Maiorano, L (2023) Conical and sabertoothed cats as an exception to craniofacial evolutionary allometry. Scientific Reports, 13 (1). p. 13571. ISSN 2045-2322

Jiménez-Hidalgo, E, Estebaranz-Sánchez, F, Krajcarz, MT, Meloro, C and DeSantis, L (2023) Editorial: Reconstructing paleodiets: challenges and advances. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11. ISSN 2296-701X

Brown, RP, Jin, Y, Thomas, J and Meloro, C (2023) Life on a beach leads to phenotypic divergence despite gene flow for an island lizard. Communications Biology, 6 (1). ISSN 2399-3642

Vicari, D, McGowen, MR, Lambert, O, Brown, RP, Bianucci, G, Sabin, RC and Meloro, C (2023) Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. ISSN 1064-7554

García-Vázquez, A, Crampton, DA, Lamb, AL, Wolff, GA, Kiriakoulakis, K, Guidarelli, G, Loy, A, Ciucci, P, Groff, C, Pinto-Llona, AC, Grandal-d’Anglade, A and Meloro, C (2022) Isotopic signature in isolated south-western populations of European brown bear (Ursus arctos). Mammal Research. ISSN 2199-2401

Russo, LF, Meloro, C, De Silvestri, M, Chadwick, EA and Loy, A (2022) Better sturdy or slender? Eurasian otter skull plasticity in response to feeding ecology. PLoS One, 17 (9). ISSN 1932-6203

Vicari, D, Lorenzen, ED, Skovrind, M, Szpak, P, Louis, M, Olsen, MT, Brown, RP, Lambert, O, Bianucci, G, Sabin, RC and Meloro, C (2022) Skull ecomorphological variation of narwhals (Monodon monoceros, Linnaeus 1758) and belugas (Delphinapterus leucas, Pallas 1776) reveals phenotype of their hybrids. PLoS ONE, 17 (8). e0273122. ISSN 1932-6203

Steiner, N, Clauss, M, Martin, LF, Imper, C, Meloro, C and Duque-Correa, MJ (2022) No news from old drawings? Stomach anatomy in muroid rodents in relation to body size and ecology. Journal of Morphology, 283 (9). pp. 1200-1209. ISSN 0362-2525

Duque-Correa, MJ, Clauss, M, Hoppe, MI, Buyse, K, Codron, D, Meloro, C and Edwards, MS (2022) Diet, habitat and flight characteristics correlate with intestine length in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289 (1976). ISSN 0962-8452

Meloro, C (2022) Evolution: The shape of cetacean skulls through deep time. Current Biology, 32 (10). R457-R481. ISSN 0960-9822

Meloro, C and Sansalone, G (2022) Palaeoecological significance of the “wolf event” as revealed by skull ecometrics of the canid guilds. Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal, 281. ISSN 0277-3791

Vicari, D, Sabin, RC, Brown, RP, Lambert, O, Bianucci, G and Meloro, C (2022) Skull morphological variation in a British stranded population of false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens, Owen 1846): a 3D geometric morphometric approach. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 100 (2). pp. 119-132. ISSN 0008-4301

Charters, D, Brown, RP, Abrams, G, Bonjean, D, De Groote, I and Meloro, C (2021) Morphological evolution of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) mandibular molars: coordinated size and shape changes through the Scladina Cave chronostratigraphy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 587. ISSN 0031-0182

Meloro, C and Tamagnini, D (2021) Macroevolutionary ecomorphology of the Carnivora skull: adaptations and constraints in the extant species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 196 (3). pp. 1054-1068. ISSN 0024-4082

Tamagnini, D, Canestrelli, D, Meloro, C, Raia, P and Maiorano, L (2021) New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era. Evolutionary Biology. ISSN 0071-3260

Greco, I, Chizzola, M, Meloro, C, Swanepoel, L, Tamagnini, D and Dalerum, F (2021) Similarities between lions and sympatric carnivores in diel activity, size and morphology. Hystrix : the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 32 (2). ISSN 0394-1914

Hoppe, MI, Meloro, C, Edwards, MS, Codron, D, Clauss, M and Duque-Correa, MJ (2021) Less need for differentiation? Intestinal length of reptiles as compared to mammals. PLoS One, 16 (7). ISSN 1932-6203

Bubadué, J, Cáceres, N, Melo, G, Sponchiado, J, Battistella, T, Newton, J and Meloro, C (2021) Niche partitioning in small mammals: interspecific and biome-level analyses using stable isotopes. Journal of Mammalogy. ISSN 0022-2372

Giacomini, G, Herrel, A, Chaverri, G, Brown, RP, Russo, D, Scaravelli, D and Meloro, C (2021) Functional correlates of skull shape in Chiroptera: feeding and echolocation adaptations. Integrated Zoology. ISSN 1749-4877

Tamagnini, D, Meloro, C, Raia, P and Maiorano, L (2021) Testing the occurrence of convergence in the cranio-mandibular shape evolution of living carnivorans. Evolution, 75 (7). pp. 1738-1752. ISSN 0014-3820

Duque-Correa, MJ, Codron, D, Meloro, C, McGrosky, A, Schiffmann, C, Edwards, MS and Clauss, M (2021) Mammalian intestinal allometry, phylogeny, trophic level and climate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 (1944). ISSN 0962-8452

Bubadue, J, Meloro, C, Hendges, C, Battistella, T, Carvalho, R and Caceres, N (2020) Clinal and Allometric Variation in the Skull of Sexually Dimorphic Opossums. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. ISSN 1064-7554

Serio, C, Raia, P and Meloro, C (2020) Locomotory Adaptations in 3D Humerus Geometry of Xenarthra: Testing for Convergence. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8. ISSN 2296-701X

Rafiq, K, Hayward, MW, Wilson, AM, Meloro, C, Jordan, NR, Wich, SA, McNutt, JW and Golabek, KA (2020) Spatial and temporal overlaps between leopards (Panthera pardus) and their competitors in the African large predator guild. Journal of Zoology. ISSN 0952-8369

De Cuyper, A, Meloro, C, Abraham, AJ, Müller, DWH, Codron, D, Janssens, GPJ and Clauss, M (2020) The uneven weight distribution between predators and prey: Comparing gut fill between terrestrial herbivores and carnivores. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 243. ISSN 1095-6433

Rafiq, K, Jordan, NR, Meloro, C, Wilson, AM, Hayward, MW, Wich, SA and McNutt, JW (2020) Scent-marking strategies of a solitary carnivore: boundary and road scent marking in the leopard. Animal Behaviour, 161. pp. 115-126. ISSN 0003-3472

Rafiq, K, Jordan, NR, Wilson, AM, McNutt, JW, Hayward, MW, Meloro, C, Wich, SA and Golabek, KA (2019) Spatio-temporal factors impacting encounter occurrences between leopards and other large African predators. Journal of Zoology, 310 (3). pp. 191-200. ISSN 0952-8369

Rafiq, K, Bryce, CM, Rich, LN, Coco, C, Miller, DAW, Meloro, C, Wich, SA, McNutt, JW and Hayward, MW (2019) Tourist photographs as a scalable framework for wildlife monitoring in protected areas. Current Biology, 29 (14). R681-R682. ISSN 1879-0445

McGrosky, A, Meloro, C, Navarrete, A, Heldstab, SA, Kitchener, AC, Isler, K and Clauss, M (2019) Gross intestinal morphometry and allometry in primates. American Journal of Primatology, 81 (8). ISSN 0275-2565

Giacomini, G, Scaravelli, D, Herrel, A, Veneziano, A, Russo, D, Brown, RP and Meloro, C (2019) 3D Photogrammetry of Bat Skulls: Perspectives for Macro-evolutionary Analyses. Evolutionary Biology. ISSN 0071-3260

Veneziano, A, Irish, JD, Meloro, C, Stringer, C and De Groote, I (2019) The functional significance of dental and mandibular reduction in Homo: A catarrhine perspective. American Journal of Primatology. ISSN 1098-2345

Charters, D, Abrams, G, De Groote, I, Di Modica, K, Bonjean, D and Meloro, C (2018) Temporal variation in cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) dentition: The stratigraphic sequence of Scladina Cave, Belgium. Quaternary Science Reviews, 205. pp. 76-85. ISSN 0277-3791

Tamagnini, D, Stephenson, J, Brown, RP and Meloro, C (2018) Geometric morphometric analyses of sexual dimorphism and allometry in two sympatric snakes: Natrix helvetica (Natricidae) and Vipera berus (Viperidae). Zoology. ISSN 0944-2006

Raia, P, Boggioni, M, Carotenuto, F, Castiglione, S, Di Febbraro, M, Di Vincenzo, F, Melchionna, M, Mondanaro, A, Papini, A, Profico, A, Serio, C, Veneziano, A, Vero, V, Rook, L, Meloro, C and Manzi, G (2018) Unexpectedly rapid evolution of mandibular shape in hominins. Scientific Reports, 8 (7340). ISSN 2045-2322

Watson, P, Fitton, L, Meloro, C, Fagan, M and Gröning, F (2018) Mechanical adaptation of trabecular bone morphology in the mammalian mandible. Scientific Reports, 8. ISSN 2045-2322

Veneziano, A, Meloro, C, Irish, JD, Stringer, C, Profico, A and De Groote, I (2018) Neuromandibular integration in humans and chimpanzees: implications for dental and mandibular reduction in Homo. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. ISSN 1096-8644

Bubadué, J, Polidoro, G, Melo, G, Sponchiado, J, Serio, C, Melchionna, M, Mondanaro, A, Castiglione, S, Meloro, C, Raia, P, Cáceres, N and Carotenuto, F (2018) Rensch’s and Bergmann’s Rules in Cis-Andean South-American Howler Monkeys (Mammalia: Alouatta). Hystrix : the Italian Journal of Mammalogy. ISSN 0394-1914

Meloro, C and Marques De Oliveira, A (2017) Elbow Joint Geometry in Bears (Ursidae, Carnivora): a Tool to Infer Paleobiology and Functional Adaptations of Quaternary Fossils. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. ISSN 1064-7554

Guidarelli, G, Colangelo, P, de Francesco, MC, Nicolosi, P, Meloro, C and Loy, A (2017) Phenotypic Changes Across a Geographic Gradient: The Case of Three Sympatric Dolphin Species. Evolutionary Biology. ISSN 0071-3260

Tamagnini, D, Meloro, C and Cardini, A (2017) Anyone with a Long-Face? Craniofacial Evolutionary Allometry (CREA) in a Family of Short-Faced Mammals, the Felidae. Evolutionary Biology. ISSN 0071-3260

Meloro, C, Guidarelli, G, Colangelo, P, Ciucci, P and Loy, A (2017) Mandible size and shape in extant Ursidae (Carnivora, Mammalia): A tool for taxonomy and ecogeography. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. ISSN 1439-0469

Meloro, C, Hunter, J, Tomsett, L, Portela Miguez, R, Prevosti, FJ and Brown, RP (2017) Evolutionary ecomorphology of the Falkland Islands wolf Dusicyon australis. Mammal Review. ISSN 0305-1838

Clauss, M, Nurutdinova, I, Meloro, C, Gunga, HC, Jiang, D, Koller, J, Herkner, B, Sander, PM and Hellwich, O (2016) Reconstruction of body cavity volume in terrestrial tetrapods. Journal of Anatomy. ISSN 1469-7580

Caceres, N, Weber, M, Melo, G, Meloro, C, Sponchiado, J, Carvalho, R and Bubadue, J (2016) Which Factors Determine Spatial Segregation in the South American Opossums (Didelphis aurita and D. albiventris)? An Ecological Niche Modelling and Geometric Morphometrics Approach. PLoS One. ISSN 1932-6203

Eldred, T, Meloro, C, Scholtz, C, Murphy, D, Fincken, K and Hayward, M (2016) Does size matter for horny beetles? A geometric morphometric analysis of interspecific and intersexual size and shape variation in Colophon haughtoni Barnard, 1929, and C. kawaii Mizukami, 1997 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Organisms Diversity and Evolution. ISSN 1618-1077

Elton, S, Jansson, A-U, Meloro, C, Louys, J, Plummer, T and Bishop, LC (2016) Exploring morphological generality in the Old World monkey postcranium using an ecomorphological framework. Journal of Anatomy, 228 (4). pp. 531-560. ISSN 1469-7580

Meir, AR, Schmuck, U, Meloro, C, Clauss, M and Hofmann, RR (2015) Convergence of Macroscopic Tongue Anatomy in Ruminants and Scaling Relationships with Body Mass or Tongue Length. Journal of Morphology. ISSN 1097-4687

Bubadue, J, Caceres, N, Carvalho, R and Meloro, C (2015) Ecogeographical Variation in Skull Shape of South-American Canids: Abiotic or Biotic Processes? Evolutionary Biology. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1934-2845

Van Valkenburgh, B, Hayward, MW, Ripple, WJ, Meloro, C and Roth, VL (2015) The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. ISSN 1091-6490

Meloro, C, Clauss, M and Raia, P (2015) Ecomorphology of Carnivora challenges convergent evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. ISSN 1439-6092

Meloro, C, Caceres, NC, Carotenuto, F, Sponchiado, J, Melo, GL, Passaro, F and Raia, P (2015) Chewing on the trees: Constraints and adaptation in the evolution of the primate mandible. EVOLUTION, 69 (7). pp. 1690-1700. ISSN 0014-3820

Louys, J, Meloro, C, Elton, S, Ditchfield, P and Bishop, LC (2015) The potential and pitfalls of using simple dental metrics to infer the diets of African antelopes (Mammalia: Bovidae). Palaeontologia Africana, 49. ISSN 2410-4418

Meloro, C, Hudson, A and Rook, L (2015) Feeding habits of extant and fossil canids as determined by their skull geometry. Journal of Zoology, 295 (3). pp. 178-188. ISSN 1469-7998

Louys, J, Meloro, C, Elton, S, Ditchfield, P and Bishop, LC (2015) Analytical framework for reconstructing heterogeneous environmental variables from mammal community structure. Journal of Human Evolution, 78 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1095-8606

Meloro, C and Louys, J (2014) Ecomorphology of radii in Canidae: Application to fragmentary fossils from Plio-Pleistocene hominin assemblages. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 60 (4). pp. 795-806. ISSN 0567-7920

Walmsley, A, Elton, S, Louys, J, Bishop, LC and Meloro, C (2012) Humeral epiphyseal shape in the felidae: The influence of phylogeny, allometry, and locomotion. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, 273 (12). pp. 1424-1438. ISSN 0362-2525

Book Section

Bubadué, J, Cáceres, N, Brum, M and Meloro, C (2023) Skull Morphological Evolution in Faunivorous Marsupials. In: American and Australasian Marsupials: An Evolutionary, Biogeographical, and Ecological Approach. Springer, Cham, pp. 431-451. ISBN 9783031084188

Meloro, C (2022) Ecomorphological Disparity of Small Carnivore Guilds. In: Do Linh San, E, Sato, JJ, Belant, JL and Somers, MJ, (eds.) Small Carnivores: Evolution, Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, First Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 93-106. ISBN 978-1-118-94326-7

Kitchener, A, Meloro, C and Terry, W (2017) Form and function of the musteloids. In: Macdonald, DW, Newman, C and Harrington, LA, (eds.) Biology and Conservation of Musteloids. Biology and conservation of carnivores, 3 . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 92-128. ISBN 978-0198759812