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  1. A new ‘acanthothoracid’ placoderm from the Arctic Canada (Early Devonian) and its bearing on the evolution of jaws and teeth

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, September 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  2. The shoulder girdle of early chondrichthyans grew by skeletal remodelling

    Article • Biology Letters, September 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  3. Three-dimensional fossils of a Cretaceous collared carpet shark (Parascylliidae, Orectolobiformes) shed light on skeletal evolution in galeomorphs

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, April 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  4. Parasitic fish embryos do a “front-flip” on the yolk to resist expulsion from the host

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  5. Extreme lower jaw elongation in a placoderm reflects high disparity and modularity in early vertebrate evolution

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, January 2024, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  6. Deformity or variation? Phenotypic diversity in the zebrafish vertebral column

    Article • Journal of Anatomy, July 2023, Wiley

    Dr Martin Rücklin, Paul Eckhard Witten

  7. Increasing morphological disparity and decreasing optimality for jaw speed and strength during the radiation of jawed vertebrates

    Article • Science Advances, March 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  8. Tooth development in the Early Devonian sarcopterygian Powichthys and the evolution of the crown osteichthyan dentition

    Article • Palaeontology, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  9. Developmental influence on evolutionary rates and the origin of placental mammal tooth complexity

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Aidan Couzens , Dr Martin Rücklin

  10. Acanthodian dental development and the origin of gnathostome dentitions

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  11. More Bone with Less Minerals? The Effects of Dietary Phosphorus on the Post-Cranial Skeleton in Zebrafish

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Martin Rücklin, Paul Eckhard Witten

  12. Tooth-shape adaptations in aglyphous colubrid snakes inferred from three-dimensional geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, July 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  13. Tooth replacement in early sarcopterygians

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, November 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  14. The early elasmobranch Phoebodus : phylogenetic relationships, ecomorphology and a new time-scale for shark evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  15. Tooth Shape Adaptations in Aglyphous Colubrid Snakes Inferred from 3D Geometric Morphometrics and Finite Element Analysis

    Article • September 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  16. Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous alpha diversity, ecospace occupation, vertebrate assemblages and bio-events of southeastern Morocco

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  17. Reply to ‘placoderms and the evolutionary origin of teeth’: Burrowet al.(2016)

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Martin Rücklin

  18. Romundina and the evolutionary origin of teeth

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Martin Rücklin