Esteban, J. M., Martín-Serra, A., Pérez-Ramos, A., Mulot, B., Rybczynski, N. Jones, K., & Figueirido, B. (2023). The influence of the land-to-sea macroevolutionary transition on vertebral column disparification in Pinnipedia. Submitted to Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Esteban, J.M., Martín-Serra, A., Pérez-Ramos, A., Figueirido, B. (2023). Vertebral motion of the pinniped vertebral column and its relationship to swimming locomotion and habitat. Submitted to Royal Society Open Science.
Figueirido, B., Esteban, J.M., Pérez-Ramos, A., Martín-Serra, A., Serrano, F.J., Corazza E., Romero, A., Velasco, D., Palmqvist, P., Pérez-Claros, J.A., Markus Bastir, M., Pastor F.J. (2023) BACKBONE1.0: A comprehensive and dynamic dataset of vertebral shape in 3D. Submitted to Scientific Data.
Cuxart, R., Serrano, F.J., Brusatte, S., Jagielska, N., Figueirido, B. (2023). The developmental origins of body-axis organization in pterosaurs. Submitted to Biological Reviews.
Serrano, F.J., Pérez-Ramos, A., Chiappe, L.M., Chapman S.C., Rashid, D.J., Bertrand O., Marcè-Noguè J., Brusatte S.L., Figueirido,B. (2023) Evolution of body axis organization in birds and their flight. Submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
Esteban, J. M., Martín-Serra, A., Pérez-Ramos, A., Mulot, B., Jones, K., & Figueirido, B. (2023). The impact of the land-to-sea transition on evolutionary integration and modularity of the pinniped backbone. Communications Biology, 6(1), 1141.
Esteban, J. M., Martin-Serra, A., Pérez-Ramos, A., Rybczynski, N., Pastor, F. J., & Figueirido, B. (2023). Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30(2), 341-362.
Figueirido, B., Pérez‐Ramos, A., & Martín‐Serra, A. (2023). Intravertebral vs. intervertebral integration and modularity in the vertebral column of mammalian carnivorans. Journal of Anatomy, 242(4), 642-656.
Figueirido, B., Serrano, F. J., Pérez-Ramos, A., Esteban, J. M., Ferrón, H. G., & Martín-Serra, A. (2022). Body-axis organization in tetrapods: a model-system to disentangle the developmental origins of convergent evolution in deep time. Biology Letters, 18(4), 20220047.
Figueirido, B., Martín-Serra, A., Pérez-Ramos, A., Velasco, D., Pastor, F. J., & Benson, R. J. (2021). Serial disparity in the carnivoran backbone unveils a complex adaptive role in metameric evolution. Communications Biology, 4(1), 863.
Martín-Serra, A., Pérez-Ramos, A., Pastor, F. J., Velasco, D., & Figueirido, B. (2021). Phenotypic integration in the carnivoran backbone and the evolution of functional differentiation in metameric structures. Evolution Letters, 5(3), 251-264.
Esteban, J. M., Martín‐Serra, A., Varón‐González, C., Pérez‐Ramos, A., Velasco, D., Pastor, F. J., & Figueirido, B. (2020). Morphological evolution of the carnivoran sacrum. Journal of Anatomy, 237(6), 1087-1102.
Pérez-Ramos, A., & Figueirido, B. (2020). Toward an “Ancient” virtual World: improvement methods on X-ray CT data processing and virtual reconstruction of fossil skulls. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 345.
Martín-Serra, A., Figueirido, B., & Palmqvist, P. (2020). Changing modular patterns in the carnivoran pelvic girdle. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 27, 237-243.
Conference presentations
Martín Serra A, Esteban Nuñez JM, Pérez-Ramos A, Figueirido B. Morphological disparity and integration in the vertebral column of pinnipeds (Mammalia, Carnivora). In: ICVM 2023 International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns QLD (Australia).
Serrano FJ, Chiappe L, Perez-Ramos A, Chapman S, Rashid D, Marcé-Nogué J, Bertrand O, Brusatte S, Figueirido B. Evolution of axial regionalization in Aves during the Mesozoic and its impact on the survival of modern lineages to KPg mass extinction. In: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, 2023 (Cairns QLD, Australia).
Schwab J, Jones K, Figueirido B. Morphological indicators of hunting behaviour in the carnivoran axial skeleton. In: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, 2023 (Cairns QLD, Australia).
A Pérez-Ramos, F J Serrano, J Marcé-Nogué, B Figueirido. Experimental design of spine’s function across the evolution of birds. In: Society of Experimental Biology Centenary Conference, 2023 (Edinburgh).
Alejandro Pérez-Ramos, Francisco J. Serrano, B. Figueirido. Functional assessment of the spine configuration across the evolution of birds. In: Society of Avian Palaeontology and Evolution, 2023 (Málaga, Spain).
M Costa-Pérez, B Figueirido, FJ Serrano. The correlation of synsacrum length and number of co-ossified synsacral vertebrae across the evolution of birds. In: Society of Avian Palaeontology and Evolution, 2023 (Málaga, Spain).
Martín-Serra A, Esteban JM, Pérez-Ramos A, Figueirido B. Evolución de la columna vertebral en pinnípedos actuales y extintos. In: XXXVIII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 2023 (Valencia, Spain).
Pérez-Ramos, A., Balcerzyk, M., Parrado, Á., Esteban, J. M., De Renzi, M., Figueirido, B. 2023. Patrones de adaptación ecofisiológica ósea en mamíferos marinos: caso de estudio dentro del Orden Odontoceti. In: XXXVIII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 2023 (Valencia, Spain).
Esteban Nuñez J, Figueirido B, Pérez-Claros JA, Ramos AP, Martín Serra A. A 3D geometric morphometric analysis of the sacrum in pinnipeds. In: 82th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2022 (Toronto, Canada).
Schawb J, Figueirido B, Jones K. Disentangling the morphological indicators of hunting behaviour in the carnivoran skeleton. In: Society of Vetebrate Palaeontology and Vertebrate Anatomy, 2022 (London, UK).
Martín-Serra A, Esteban JM, Pérez-Ramos A, Figueirido B. Disparidad e integración morfológica en la columna vertebral de los pinnípedos (Mammalia, Carnivora). In: XXXVII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 2022 (Cuenca, Spain).
Costa-Pérez M, Figueirido B, Serrano F. Variación del número de vértebras y tamaño del sinsacro durante la evolución de las aves. In: XXXVII Jornadas de Paleontologia y V congreso Ibérico de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 2022 (Cuenca, Spain).
Figueirido B, Pérez-Ramos A, Esteban JM, Serrano FJ, Martín-Serra A. Disparidad, modularidad y función en la columna vertebral de los carnívoros. In: XXXVII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 2022 (Cuenca, Spain).
Esteban JM, Martín-Serra A, Pérez-Ramos A and Figueirido B. Evolución de la morfología del sacro de los pinnípedos (Mammalia, Carnivora). In: XXXVII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 2022 (Cuenca, Spain).
Esteban JM, Martín-Serra A, Pérez-Ramos A and Figueirido B. Morphological evolution of the pinniped sacrum. In: VIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva, 2022 (Vigo, Spain).
Figueirido B, Serrano FJ, Pérez-Ramos A, Esteban JM and Martín-Serra A. 2022. Evolution of disparity, modularity and function in serially homologous structures: the carnivoran backbone as a model system. In: VIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva, 2022 (Vigo, Spain).
Figueirido B, Martín-Serra A, Pérez-Ramos A, Serrano F, Velasco D, Pérez-Claros J and Pastor FJ. Phenotypic integration in the vertebral column of mammalian carnivores. In: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, 2018 (Prague).
Figueirido B, Martín-Serra A, Velasco D, Pérez-Ramos A and Pastor F. Serial homology, Horseshoe effect, and the evolution of the carnivoran backbone. In: II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018 (Montpellier).
Martín-Serra A, Figueirido B, Serrano F, Palmqvist P. Modular evolution of the carnivoran pelvic girdle: a three-dimensional morphometric approach. In: 75th meeting of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 2015. Dallas (Texas).