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Morphological variations and asymmetry

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Erica K. Baken
St. John's University
2
Sara Rolfe
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
Esther Wershof
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
4
Mathias Sablé-Meyer
Inserm
5
Sahin Naqvi
Boston Children's Hospital
6
Joana I. Meier
University of Cambridge
7
Paule Dagenais
Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
8
Andrew Orkney
Cornell University
9
Lukas Waltenberger
Austrian Academy of Sciences
10
Marine Jeanjean
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Rising Stars Papers

1
Small body size is associated with increased evolutionary lability of wing skeleton proportions in birds
Nature Communications|2024
18 cit.
2
Transfer learning reveals sequence determinants of the quantitative response to transcription factor dosage
Cell Genomics|2025
11 cit.
3
Mechanical positional information guides the self-organized development of a polygonal network of creases in the skin of mammalian noses
Current Biology|2024
9 cit.
4
Evolutionary integration of forelimb and hindlimb proportions within the bat wing membrane inhibits ecological adaptation
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2024
9 cit.
5
Genomics of Neotropical biodiversity indicators: Two butterfly radiations with rampant chromosomal rearrangements and hybridization
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2025
9 cit.
6
8000 Years of morphometric evolution of sheep, goat and pig in the northwestern Mediterranean basin
The Holocene|2025
6 cit.
7
Streamlining asymmetry quantification in fetal mouse imaging: A semi‐automated pipeline supported by expert guidance
Developmental Dynamics|2025
5 cit.
8
Two species, two stories: divergent morphometric evolution of sheep and goats over the last 8000 years
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2025
4 cit.
9
Influence of Bone Density and Guide Protocol on the Accuracy of Self‐Cutting Implants Using Static Guided Implant Placement—An In Vitro Study
Clinical Oral Implants Research|2025
2 cit.
10
Great expectations: altricial developmental strategies are associated with more flexible evolution of limb skeleton proportions in birds
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Karl Kumbier
University of California, San Francisco
2
Julie A. Harris
Allen Institute
3
E. Pascal Malkemper
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
4
Martin Kuhlwilm
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva
5
Rim Slama
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6
Nicolas Di-Poı̈
University of Helsinki
7
Jakob Seidlitz
California University of Pennsylvania
8
Allowen Evin
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
9
Maiko Iiyoshi
Unknown
10
Gareth Hughes
University of Greater Manchester

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
GPU-Accelerated All-Atom Particle-Mesh Ewald Continuous Constant pH Molecular Dynamics in Amber
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation|2022
99 cit.
2
Ghost admixture in eastern gorillas
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2023
38 cit.
3
D-STGCNT: A Dense Spatio-Temporal Graph Conv-GRU Network based on transformer for assessment of patient physical rehabilitation
Computers in Biology and Medicine|2023
38 cit.
4
Sorting the flock: Quantitative identification of sheep and goat from isolated third lower molars and mandibles through geometric morphometrics
Journal of Archaeological Science|2022
35 cit.
5
The multivariate analysis of variance as a powerful approach for circular data
Movement Ecology|2022
26 cit.
6
An overview on human-centred technologies, measurements and optimisation in assembly systems
International Journal of Production Research|2023
25 cit.
7
Dynamic evolutionary interplay between ontogenetic skull patterning and whole-head integration
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2024
25 cit.
8
Deciphering the functional specialization of whole-brain spatiomolecular gradients in the adult brain
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
24 cit.
9
STr-GCN: Dual Spatial Graph Convolutional Network and Transformer Graph Encoder for 3D Hand Gesture Recognition
Unknown Journal|2023
22 cit.
10
sstar: A Python Package for Detecting Archaic Introgression from Population Genetic Data with <i>S</i> *
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2022
19 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Paul D. Ryan
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
2
John Wheeler
University of Liverpool
3
Fred L. Bookstein
University of Vienna
4
Guillermo Sapiro
Duke University
5
Giorgio Vallortígara
University of Trento
6
Karl Friston
Queen Mary University of London
7
Paul Longley
Nanjing Normal University
8
James M. Cheverud
Washington University in St. Louis
9
Eric Halgren
University of California San Diego
10
Xiuwen Liu
Florida State University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
<i>The Fractal Geometry of Nature</i>
American Journal of Physics|1983
21.9k cit.
2
PAST: PALEONTOLOGICAL STATISTICAL SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR EDUCATION AND DATA ANALYSIS
Palaeontologia Electronica|2001
18k cit.
3
Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach
Human Brain Mapping|1994
9.8k cit.
4
Unified segmentation
NeuroImage|2005
7.5k cit.
5
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
Unknown Journal|1982
5.5k cit.
6
Geodesic Active Contours
International Journal of Computer Vision|1997
5.2k cit.
7
Principal warps: thin-plate splines and the decomposition of deformations
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|1989
4.9k cit.
8
Dynamic causal modelling
NeuroImage|2003
4.7k cit.
9
Movement‐Related effects in fMRI time‐series
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine|1996
3.9k cit.
10
Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits
American Journal of Physical Anthropology|1999
3.9k cit.

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