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Publications in peer-reviewed journals (80)
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2026

Taillades M, Toussaint-Lardé I, Louppe V, Fournier M, Mandica M, Herrel A and A-C Fabre* (accepted). Impact of life cycle variation on feeding system musculature in Caudata.Integrative and Comparative Biology

Montoya P, Fabre A-C, Goswami A, Morlon H and J Clavel (2026) An Empirical Bayes approach for the study of phenotypic evolution from high-dimensional data. Biorxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.13.711658 pdf

2025
Martinez Q, Molinier C, Barraza-Soltero IK, Berger E, Le Verger K, Fabre A-C, Billet G, Fernandez V, Ferreira GS, van de Kamp T, Hamann E, Zuber M, Portela Miguez R, Hautier L and E Amson (2025) The olfactory bulb endocast as a proxy for mammalian olfaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2510575122. pdf

Scarsbrook L, Spatola GJ, Dreger DL, Feuerborn TR, Buckley RM, Carmagnini A, Fabre A-C, Harris AC, Hertwig ST, Leeb T, Mousseau TA, Tabbada K, Thalmann O, Larson G, Frantz LAF and EA Ostrander (2025) A 120-y time series of genomes reveals the consequences of closed breeding in German Shepherd Dogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2421755122. pdf

Toussaint-Lardé I, Louppe V, Fournier M, Clavel J, Herrel A and Fabre A-C (2025) Testing the impact of prey presentation method on the feeding kinematics of terrestrial and aquatic Ambystomatidae. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 343, 1150-1163. pdf

Alfieri F, Demuth OE, Steell EM, Fabre A‐C and Field DJ (2025) Constrained variation in the internal architecture of avian wing bones. Functional Ecology 39, 3611–3627. pdf

Macaluso L, Villa A, Rozzi R, Fabre A-C and Mennecart B (2025) Time to grow up: the PETM climatic event favoured metamorphosing salamanders (Urodela, Salamandridae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292, 2052. pdf

Monclús-Gonzalo O , Alba DM , Fabre A-C  and J Marigó (2025) Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of early primates in the light of astragalar and calcaneal shape. Journal of Human Evolution 206, 103730 pdf

Toussaint-Lardé I, Louppe V, Sanchez-Garrido F, Taillades M, Amine R, Mandica M, Heude Herrel A and Fabre A-C (2025) The impact of size and ontogeny on suction feeding kinematics in the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). Biology Open bio061860 pdf

Decuypere V, Herrel A, Grimal Q, Germain D, Fabre A-C and S Ladevèze (2025) Modelling marsupial mastication: The biomechanical bite model of the Linnaeus's mouse opossum Marmosa murina (Marsupialia, Didelphidae). Journal of Anatomy 247, 1187-1203. pdf

Louppe V, Clavel J, Le Verger K, Ferreira GS, Kyriakouli C, Stanley EL, Watt EC, Bardua C, Boistel R, Pérez-Ben C, Fröbisch NB, Bothe V, Daghfous G, Goswami A and A-C Fabre* (2025) Complete metamorphosis in salamanders facilitates diversification of mandible shape and feeding innovation in terrestrial environments. Functional Ecology 39, 1732-1747. pdf

2024
Rothier PS, Fabre A-C, Benson RBJ, Martinez Q, Fabre P-H, Hedrick BP and A Herrel (2024) Of flippers and wings: the locomotor environment as a driver of the evolution of the forelimb morphological diversity in mammals. Functional Ecology 38, 2231-2246. pdf

Le Verger K, Kueng LC, Fabre A-C, Schmelzle T, Wegmann A and MR Sánchez-Villagra (2024) Goldfish phenomics reveals commonalities and a lack of universality in the domestication process for ornamentation. Evolution Letters 8, 774-786. pdf

Stevens M, Fabre A-C and RN Felice (2024) Lower jaw modularity in the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra gigliolii). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 141, 379-389. pdf

Louppe V, Fabre A-C, Lorvelec O and G Veron (2024) Head morphology reflects the introduction history in a globally invasive carnivore—the small Indian mongoose. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200, 837-847. pdf


2023
Monclús-Gonzalo O, Alba DM, Duhamel A, Fabre A-C* and J Marigó (2023) Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 181, 103395. pdf

Goswami A, Noirault E, Coombs EJ, Clavel J, Fabre A-C, Halliday TJD, Churchill M, Curtis A, Watanabe A, Simmons NB., Beatty BL., Geisler JH, Fox DL and Felice RN (2023). Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B 378:2022008320220083. http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0083  pdf

Taverne M, Watson PJ, Dutel H, Boistel R, Lisicic D, Tadic Z, Fabre A-C, Fagan MJ and A Herrel (2023). Form–function relationships underlie rapid dietary changes in a lizard. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:2023058220230582. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0582

Peckre L, Fabre A-C, Wall CE, Pouydebat M and IQ. Whishaw (2023). Evolutionary history of food withdraw movements in primates: food withdraw is mediated by nonvisual strategies in 22 species of strepsirrhines. Evolutionary Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09598-0 pdf

*Fabre A-C, Portela Miguez R, Wall CE, Peckre LR, Ehmke E and R Boistel (2023) A review of nose picking in primates with new evidence of its occurrence in Daubentonia madagascariensis. Journal of Zoology 319: 91-98. pdf

Rothier P, Fabre A-C, Clavel J, Benson RBJ and A Herrel (2023) Mammalian forelimb evolution is driven by a uneven proximal-to-distal morphological diversity. eLife 12:e81492. pdf

2022
Goswami A, Noirault E, Coombs EJ, Clavel J, Fabre A-C, Halliday TJD, Churchill M, Curtis A, Watanabe A, Simmons NB, Beatty BL, Geisler JH, Fox DL and RN Felice (2022). Attenuated evolution of mammals through the Cenozoic. Science 378: 377-383. pdf


2021
Taverne M, Dutel H, Fagan M, Stambuk A, Lisicic D, Tadic Z, Fabre A-C and A Herrel (2021) From micro to macroevolution: drivers of shape variation in island radiation of Podarcis lizards. Evolution 75-11: 2685-2707. pdf

*Huntley LC, Gower DJ, Sampaio FL, Collins ES, Goswami A and Fabre A-C (2021) Intraspecific morphological variation in the shieldtail snake Rhinophis philippinus (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), with particular reference to tail-shield and cranial 3D geometric morphometrics. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59:1357-1370. pdf

Fouquet A, Leblanc K.,
Fabre A-C, Rodrigues MT, Menin M, Courtois EA, Dewynter M, Hölting, Ernst R, Peloso P and PJR Kok (2021). Comparative osterology of the fossorial frogs of the genus Synapturanus (Anura, Microhylidae) with the description of three new species from the Eastern Guiana Schield. Zoologischer Anzeiger
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2021.05.003

Bardua C, Fabre A-C, Clavel J, Bon M, Das K, Stanley EL, Blackburn DC and A. Goswami (2021) Size, microhabitat, and loss of larval feeding drive cranial diversification in frogs. Nature Communications 12:2403 pdf

*Fabre A-C, Dowling C, Portela Miguez R, Fernandez V, Noirault E and A Goswami (2021) Functional constraints during development limit jaw shape evolution in marsupials. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288:20210319 pdf

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Fouquet A, Leblanc K, Framit M, Réjaud A, Rodrigues MT, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Peloso PLV, Prates I, Manzi S, Suescun U, Baroni S, Moraes LJCL, Recoder R, de Souza SM, Dal Vecchio F, Camacho A, Guellere JM, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, de Carvalho VT, Gordo M, Menin M, Kok PJR, Hrbek T, Werneck FP, Crawford AJ, Ron SR, Mueses-Cisneros JJ, Rojas Zamora RR, Pavan D, Simões PI, Ernst R and A-C Fabre (2021). Species diversity and biogeography of an ancient frog clade from the Guiana Shield (Anura: Microhylidae: Adelastes, Otophryne, Synapturanus) exhibiting spectacular phenotypic diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 132: 233-256 pdf

2020
*Michaud M, Veron G and A-C Fabre (2020) Phenotypic integration in feliform carnivores: Covariation patterns and disparity in hypercarnivores versus generalists. Evolution 74-12: 2681-2702  pdf

*Fabre A-C, Bardua C, Bon M, Clavel J, Felice RN, Streicher JW, Bonnel J, Stanley EL, Blackburn DC and A Goswami (2020) Metamorphosis shapes cranial diversity and rate of evolution in salamanders. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4:1129-1140 pdf

Bardua C, Fabre A-C, Bon M, Das K, Stanley EL, Blackburn DC, and A Goswami (2020) Evolutionary integration of the frog cranium. Evolution 74-6:1200-1215 pdf

Donihue CM,  Kowaleski A, Losos JB, Algar A, Baeckens S, Buchkowski RW, Fabre A-C, Frank HK, Geneva AJ, Reynolds RG,  Stroud JT, Velasco JA , KolbeJJ, Mahler DL and A Herrel (2020) Hurricane effects on neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117:10429-10434 pdf

*Bon M, Bardua C, Goswami A and A-C Fabre (2020) Cranial integration in the fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra (Caudata: Salamandridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society  130:178-194 pdf

Salesa MJ, Siliceo G, Anton M, Fabre A-C and JF Pastor (2020) Functional inferences on the long bones of Ischyrictis zibethoides (Blainville, 1841) (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the middle Miocene locality of Sansan (Gers, France). Geodiversitas 42:1-16 pdf

​2019
*Pagès F, Fabre A-C and A Abourachid (2019) Does bone preparation impact its shape: consequences for comparative analyses of bone shape. Peer J 7:e7932. pdf

*Peckre LR, Lowie A, Brewer D, Ehmke E, Welser K, Shaw E, Wall C, Pouydebat E and Fabre A-C (2019) Food mobility and the evolution of grasping behaviour: a case study in strepsirrhine primates. Journal of Experimental Biology jeb.207688. pdf

*Taverne M, Fabre A-C, King-Gillies N, Krajnović M, Lisičić D, Martin L; Michal L, Petricioli D, Stambuk A, Tadić Z, Vigliotti C, Wehrle B and A Herrel (2019) Diet variability among insular populations of Podarcis lizards reveals diverse strategies to face resource-limited environments. Ecology and Evolution 9:12408–12420 pdf

Bardua C, Felice RN, Watanabe A, Fabre A-C and A Goswami (2019) A practical guide to surface sliding semi-landmarks in morphometric analyses. Integrative and Organismal Biology obz016 pdf

Goswami A, Watanabe A, Felice RN, Bardua C, Fabre A-C and D Polly (2019) High-density morphometric analysis of shape and integration: the good, the bad, and the not-really-a-problem. Integrative and Comparative Biology icz120 pdf

Wölfer J, Amson E, Arnold P, Botton-Divet L, Fabre A-C, van Heteren A and J Nyakatura (2019) Femoral morphology of sciuromorph rodents in light of scaling and locomotor ecology. Journal of Anatomy pdf

Pafilis P, Herrel A, Kapsalas G, Vasilopoulou-Kampitsi M, Fabre A-C, Foufopoulos J and CM Donihue (2019)
Habitat shapes the thermoregulation in Mediterranean lizards introduced to replicates experimental islets. Journal of Thermal Biology 84:368-374. pdf

Watanabe A, Fabre A-C, Felice RN, Maisano JA, Müller J, Herrel A and A Goswami (2019) Ecomorphological diversification in squamates from conserved pattern of cranial integration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:14688-14697. pdf

Abourachid A, Herrel A, Decamps T, Pagès F, Fabre A-C, Van Hoorebeke L, Adriaens D  and MA Garcia Amado (2019) Locomotion in Hoatzin nestlings: a new quadrupedal coordination for birds. Science Advances 5:eaat0787. pdf

Böhmer C,  Fabre A-C, Taverne M, Herbin M, Peigné S and A Herrel (2019) Functional relationship between myology and ecology in carnivores: forelimb muscles reflect adaptation to prehensility. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 127:661-680. pdf


*Peckre LR, Fabre A-C, Hambucker J, Wall CW and E Pouydebat (2019) Food properties influence grasping strategies in strepsirrhines. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 127:583-597.  pdf

*Fabre A-C, Peckre LR, Pouydebat E and C Wall (2019) Does the shape of the forelimb long bones covary with grasping behaviour in strepsirrhine primates? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 127:649-660.​ pdf 



2018
*Taverne M, Fabre A-C, Herbin M, Herrel A, Lacroux C, Lowie A, Pagès F, Peigné S, Theil J-C and C Bohmer (2018) Convergence in the functional properties of forelimb muscles in carnivorans: adaptations to an arboreal life-style? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125:250-263. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Granatosky MC, Hanna JB and D Schmitt (2018) Do forelimb shape and peak forces co-vary in strepsirhinnes? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 167:602-614. pdf

Donihue CM, Herrel A, Fabre A-C,  Kamath A, Geneva AJ, Schoener TW, Kolbe JJ and JB Losos (2018) Hurricane-induced selection on the morphology of an island lizard. Nature 560:88-92.

*Michaud M, Veron G, Peigné S, Blin A and A-C Fabre (2018) Are phenotypic disparity and the rate of morphological evolution correlated with ecological diversity in Carnivora? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 124:294-307. pdf

Abdala V, Ponssa ML, Tulli MJ, Fabre A-C and A Herrel (2018) Frog tendon structure and its relationship with locomotor modes. Journal of Morphology 279:895-903. pdf

Botton-Divet L, Houssaye A, A Herrel, Fabre A-C and R Cornette  (2018) Swimmers, diggers, climbers and more, a study of integration across the mustelids' locomotor apparatus (Carnivora: Mustelidae). Evolutionary Biology 45:182-195. pdf

*Lowie A, Herrel A, Abdala V, Manzano A and A-C Fabre (2018) Does the morphology of the forelimb flexor muscles differ between lizards using different habitats? Anatomical Record 301:424-433. pdf

Böhmer C,  Fabre A-C, Herbin M, Peigné S and A Herrel (2018) Anatomical basis of differences in locomotor behavior in martens: a comparison of the forelimb musculature between two sympatric species of Martes. Anatomical Record 301:449-472. pdf

Da Silva FO, Fabre A-C, Savriama Y, Ollonen J, Mahlow K, Herrel A, Müller J and N Di-Poï (2018) The ecological origins of snake as revealed by skull evolution. Nature Communications 9:376. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Perry JMG, Harstone-Rose A, Lowie A, Boens A and M Dumont (2018) Do muscles constrain skull shape evolution in Strepsirrhines? Anatomical Record 301:291-310. pdf


2017
Abourachid A,  Fabre A-C, Cornette R and E Hofling (2017) Foot shape in arboreal birds: two morphological patterns for the same pincer-like tool. Journal of Anatomy 231:1-11. pdf

Manzano A, Herrel A, Fabre A-C and V Abdala (2017) Variation in brain anatomy in frogs and its possible bearing on their locomotor ecology. Journal of Anatomy 23:38-58. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Marigó J, Granatosky MC and D Schmitt (2017) Functional associations between support use and forelimb shape in strepsirrhines and their relevance to inferring locomotor behavior in early primates. Journal of Human Evolution 108:11-30. pdf

Botton-Divet L, Cornette R, Houssaye A, Fabre A-C and A Herrel (2017) Swimming and running, a study of the convergences in long bone morphology among semi-aquatic mustelids (Carnivora: Mustelidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 121:38-49. pdf

Dollion A, Measy GJ, Cornette R, Carne L, Tolley K, da Silva J, Boistel R, Fabre A-C and A Herrel (2017) Does diet drive the evolution of head shape and bite force in chameleons of the genus Bradypodion? Functional Ecology 31:671-684. pdf


2016
Botton-Divet L, Cornette R, Fabre A-C, Herrel A and A Houssaye (2016) Morphological analysis of long bones in semi-aquatic mustelids and their terrestrial relatives. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56:1298-1309. pdf 
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*Peckre L, Fabre A-C, Wall CE, Brewer D, Ehmke E, Haring D, Shaw E, Welser K and E Pouydebat (2016) Holding-on: co-evolution between infant carrying and grasping behaviour in strepsirrhines. Scientific Reports 6:37729. pdf

Segall M, Cornette R, Fabre A-C, Godoy-Diana R and A Herrel (2016) Does aquatic foraging impact head shape evolution in snakes? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283:20161645. pdf

Granatosky MC, Tripp CH, Fabre A-C and D Schmitt (2016) Patterns of quadrupedal locomotion in a vertical clinging and leaping primate (Propithecus coquereli) with implications for understanding the functional demands of primate quadrupedal locomotion. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160:644-652. 
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*Dumont M, Wall CE, Botton-Divet L, Goswami A, Peigné S and A-C Fabre (2016) Do functional demands associated with locomotor habitat, diet, and activity pattern drive skull shape evolution in musteloid carnivorans? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117:858-878. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Bickford D, Segall M and A Herrel (2016) The impact of diet, habitat use, and behavior on head shape evolution in homalopsid snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118:634-647. 
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2015
Botton-Divet L, Houssaye A, Herrel A, Fabre A-C and R Cornette (2015) Tools for quantitative form description; an evalutation of different software packages for semi-landmark analysis. PeerJ 3:e1417. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Cornette R, Goswami A and S Peigné (2015) Do constraints associated with the locomotor habitat drive the evolution of forelimb shape? A case study in musteloid carnivorans. Journal of Anatomy 226:596-610. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Salesa MJ, Cornette R, Antón M, Morales J and S Peigné (2015) Quantitative inferences on the locomotor behaviour of extinct species applied to Simocyon batalleri (Ailuridae, Late Miocene, Spain). Science of Nature 102:30. pdf 


2014
*Fabre A-C, Andrade DV, Huyghe K, Cornette R and A Herrel (2014) Interrelationships between bones, muscles, and performance: biting in the lizard Tupinambis merianae. Evolutionary Biology 41:518-527. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Cornette R, Perrard A, Boyer D, Prasad GVP, Hooker JJ and A Goswami (2014) A three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the locomotory ecology of Deccanolestes, a eutherian mammal from the late Cretaceous of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:146-156. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Goswami A, Peigné S and R Cornette (2014) Morphological integration in the forelimb of musteloid carnivorans. Journal of Anatomy 225:19-30. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Cornette R, Huyghe K, Andrade DV and A Herrel (2014) Linear versus geometric morphometric approaches for the analysis of head shape dimorphism in lizards. Journal of Morphology 275:1016-1026. pdf

Robovska-Havelkova P, Aerts P, Rocek Z, Prikryl T, Fabre A-C and A Herrel (2014) Do all frogs swim alike? The effect of ecological specialization on swimming kinematics in frogs. Journal of Experimental Biology 217:3637-3644. pdf


2013
*Fabre A-C, Cornette R, Peigné S and A Goswami (2013) Influence of body mass on the shape of forelimb in musteloid carnivorans. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110:91-103. pdf

*Fabre A-C, Cornette R, Slater G, Argot C, Peigné S, Goswami A and E Pouydebat (2013) Getting a grip on the evolution of grasping in musteloid carnivorans: a three-dimensional analysis of forelimb shape. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:1521-1535. pdf

Polly PD, Lawing AM, Fabre A-C and A Goswami (2013) Phylogenetic principal components analysis and geometric morphometrics. Hystrix 24:1-9. pdf


2012
Herrel A, Fabre A-C, Hugo J-P, Keovichit K, Adriaens D, Van Hoorebeke L and R Cornette (2012) Ontogeny of the cranial system in Laonastes aenigmamus. Journal of Anatomy 221:128-137. pdf

Genise JF, Garrouste R, Nel P, Grandcolas P, Maurizot P, Cluzel D, Cornette R, Fabre A-C and A Nel (2012) Asthenopodichnium in fossil wood: different trace makers as indicators of different terrestrial palaeoenvironments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 365-366:184-191. pdf



Non ISI publications with peer review
Losos DN, Weaver JBR, Fies TW, Herrel A, Fabre A-C and JB Losos (2017) The curious case of the left-sided dewlap: directional asymmetry in the Curaçao anole, Anolis lineatus. Breviora 553:1-7. pdf

Short notes

Anderson CV, Fabre A-C and A Herrel A (2016) Anolis roquet. (Martinique's Anole). Coloration. Herpetological Review 47:665-666. pdf

McCleary RJR, Bickford DP, Herrel A and A-C Fabre (2014) Gerarda prevostiana (Gerard's Watersnake). REPRODUCTION. Herpetological Review 45:516. pdf

Atlas and Book chapters

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Bohmer C, Theil J-C, Fabre A-C and A Herrel (2020) Atlas of terrestrial mammal limbs. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.



​​Herrel A, O'Reilly JC, Fabre A-C, Bardua C , Boistel R  and S Gorb (2019) Feeding in amphibians: evolutionary transformations and phenotypic diversity as drivers of feeding system diversity. In: Feeding in Vertebrates: Evolution, Morphology, Behavior, Biomechanics (Eds. Bels VL & IQ Wishaw). Springer Verlag. Pp. 431-467.

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Fabre A-C, Peigné S and M Salesa (2017) Reconstrucción de los hábitos locomotores de Simocyon batalleri. In Catálogo exposición Cerro Batallones. Pp. 260-263.

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