Department of Animal Biology

School of Integrative Biology

Institute for Genomic Biology

University of Illinois

Sears, K.E., Finarelli, J.J., Flynn, J.J. and Wyss A.  (2008). Morphometric estimators of body mass in New World monkeys (Platyrrhini, Anthropoidea, Primates), with consideration of the Miocene-aged Chilecebus carrascoensis. American Museum Novitates 3617: 1-29.

Sears, K.E. (2008). Molecular determinants of bat wing development.  Cells, Tissues, Organs 187: 6-12.

Sears, K.E., Goswami, A., Flynn, J.J., and Niswander, L.A. (2007). The correlated evolution of Runx2 tandem repeats, transcriptional activity and facial length in Carnivora. Evolution and Development 9(6): 555-565.

Sears, K.E., Behringer, R.R., Rasweiler, J.J. and Niswander, L.A (2007).  The evolutionary and developmental basis of parallel reduction in mammalian zeugopod elements.  American Naturalist 169(1): 105-117.

Sears, K.E., Behringer, R.R., Rasweiler, J.J. and Niswander, L.A (2006). The development of bat flight: Morphologic and molecular evolution of bat forelimb digit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(17): 6581-6586.

* Research featured in ScienceNOW News (April 17th, 2006)

Sears, K.E. (2005).  The developmental basis of scapular evolution in giant kangaroos (Macropodidae: Sthenurinae). Journal of Morphology 265(2): 226-236.

Sears, K.E.  (2004).  Constraints on the morphological evolution of marsupial shoulder girdles.  Evolution 58(10): 2353-2370.*#

                   *Research featured in the opening dialog of Science 298: 955-956.

                   Research featured in Developmental Biology: 7th Edition (2003; page 775) by S. Gilbert

Flynn, J.J., Novacek, M.J., Dodson, H.E., Frassinetti, D., McKenna, M.C., Norell, M.A., Sears, K.E., Swisher, C.C., Wyss, A.R.  (2002).  A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: Implications for geology, geochronology and tectonics. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 15: 285-302.