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Assistant Professor Program in Integrative Anatomy Mailing Address: M263 Medical Sciences Building Dept. of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences University of Missouri School of Medicine Columbia, MO 65212 ph: 573-884-6599
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Crocodilian Braincase and Palate Evolution New paper out in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Casey Holliday & Lawrence Witmer. 2009. The epipterygoid of crocodyliforms and its significance for the evolution of the orbitotemporal region of eusuchians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):715-733. |
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New paper out in The Anatomical Record Special Issue on Dinosaur Anatomy Holliday, CM. 2009. New Insights into the Dinosaur Jaw Muscle Anatomy. The Anatomical Record. 292:1246-1265 |
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Lab featured in USA TODAY 1940 Vertebrate Anatomy Exams discovered in copy of A. S. Romer. Man and the Vertebrates 1937. Funny how the same questions are still asked. But the answers change...sometimes. Way cool. File download here
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March 2009: New Undergrad-built Online 3D Database Launched Also Featured in the Marshall student paper The Parthenon
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January 2009: Lizard
Mandibular Symphysis Morphology Poster presented at SICB 2009 |
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Links to collaborators, colleagues, funding sources, and other sites of interest. Marshall Anatomy Dept.
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December 2008. Sun,
sand, and dinosaurs.
Casey gave an Anatomy and Paleontology program at his old elementary school: Gemini Elementary, Melbourne Beach, FL!
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New insights on the skull evolution of dinosaurs. Casey Holliday & Lawrence Witmer. 2008. Cranial kinesis in dinosaurs: intracranial joints, protractor muscles, and their significance for cranial evolution and function in diapsids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1073-1088.
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November 2008.
Thanksgiving Dissect-o-thon.
To celebrate the season, the Marshall functional morphology club came to the lab to work on projects that included lizards, alligators, and birds. |
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| November 2008. Undergraduate Nick Gardner received a grant from WV NASA to work on a project on lizard mandibular symphyses and got invited to present his research at Research Day at the Capitol in the Spring. | |||||
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Dinosaur Jaw Muscle
Anatomy Poster
presented at SVP 2008
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Hadrosaur Chewing New insights into skull mechanics using 3D animation.
Natalia Rybczynski, Alex Tirabasso,
Paul Bloskie, Robin Cutherbertson, and Casey Holliday. 2008. A
three-dimensional animation models of Edmontosaurus (Hadrosauridae)
for testing chewing hypotheses. Paleontologica Electronica 11(2):14p.
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Whale Flipper Hydrodynamics How whales fly underwater. Lisa N. Cooper, Nils Sedano, Stig Johansson, Bryan May, Joey D. Brown, Casey M. Holliday, Brian W. Kot, and Frank E. Fish. 2008 Hydrodynamic performance of the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) flipper. Journal of Experimental Biology 211:1859-1867.
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Archosaur Adductor Chamber Homology A synthesis of jaw muscle and trigeminal nerve homologies finds that crocs are more different than we thought. Casey M. Holliday and Lawrence M. Witmer. 2007. Archosaur adductor chamber homology: integration of musculoskeletal and topological criteria in jaw muscle homology. Journal of Morphology 268:457-484. |
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A new vertebrate vascular device. Casey M Holliday, Ryan C. Ridgely, Amy M. Balanoff, and Lawrence M. Witmer. 2006. Cephalic vascular anatomy in flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) based on novel vascular injection and computed tomographic imaging analyses. Anatomical Record 288A(10):1031–1041. |
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