Dr Vera Weisbecker
Honorary Associate Professor
Centre for Advanced Imaging
Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology
Flinders University
Book Chapters
Martin, Meg L. and Weisbecker, Vera (2023). Function and constraint in the marsupial postcranium. American and Australasian marsupials. (pp. 403-429) edited by Nilton C. Cáceres and Christopher R. Dickman. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08419-5_49
Macrini, Thomas E., Leary, Michael and Weisbecker, Vera (2023). Evolution of the brain and sensory structures in metatherians. Paleoneurology of amniotes: new directions in the study of fossil endocasts. (pp. 423-456) edited by María Teresa Dozo, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Thomas E. Macrini and Stig Walsh. Cham, Switzerland: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13983-3_11
Martin, Meg L. and Weisbecker, Vera (2023). Function and Constraint in the Marsupial Postcranium. American and Australasian Marsupials. (pp. 1-27) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-88800-8_49-1
Weisbecker, Vera and Beck, Robin (2015). Marsupial and monotreme evolution and biogeography. Marsupials and monotremes: nature's enigmatic mammals. (pp. 1-31) edited by Athol Klieve, Lindsay Hogan, Stephen Johnston and Peter Murray. New York, NY, United States: Nova Science.
Weisbecker, Vera (2015). Are monotremes primitive and marsupials inferior?. Marsupials and monotremes: nature's enigmatic mammals. (pp. 397-411) edited by Athol Klieve, Lindsay Hogan, Stephen Johnston and Peter Murray. New York, NY, United States: Nova Science.
Journal Articles
Mitchell, D. Rex, Cairns, Stuart C., Körtner, Gerhard, Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Saltré, Frédérik and Weisbecker, Vera (2023). Differential developmental rates and demographics in Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) populations separated by the dingo barrier fence. Journal of Mammalogy, 104 (5), 929-940. doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyad053
Samper Carro, Sofia C., Raymond, Caitlin, Weisbecker, Vera and O'Connor, Sue (2023). Big questions for small animals. Taphonomic analysis of small vertebrates in Matja Kuru 2 (Timor-Leste) during the late pleistocene. Quaternary Science Advances, 12 100102, 100102. doi: 10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100102
Macrini, Thomas E., Hopwood, Jenna, Herbert, Catherine A. and Weisbecker, Vera (2023). Development of the ethmoid in a wallaby and implications for the homology of turbinal elements in marsupials. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 (1880), 1-9. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0082
Weisbecker, Vera, Beck, Robin M. D., Guillerme, Thomas, Harrington, Arianna R., Lange-Hodgson, Leonie, Lee, Michael S. Y., Mardon, Karine and Phillips, Matthew J. (2023). Multiple modes of inference reveal less phylogenetic signal in marsupial basicranial shape compared with the rest of the cranium. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 (1880) 20220085, 1-15. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0085
Weisbecker, Vera (2023). “Opossums – An Adaptive Radiation of New World Marsupials” by Robert Voss and Sharon Jansa. Australian Zoologist, 43 (1), 143-144. doi: 10.7882/az.2023.009
Viacava, Pietro, Blomberg, Simone P. and Weisbecker, Vera (2023). The relative performance of geometric morphometrics and linear‐based methods in the taxonomic resolution of a mammalian species complex. Ecology and Evolution, 13 (3) e9698, 1-11. doi: 10.1002/ece3.9698
Mein, Erin, Manne, Tiina, Veth, Peter and Weisbecker, Vera (2022). Morphometric classification of kangaroo bones reveals paleoecological change in northwest Australia during the terminal Pleistocene. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 18245, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-21021-w
Todorov, Orlin S., Hird, Coen, Kraatz, Brian, Sherratt, Emma, Hill, Narelle, de Sousa, Alexandra A., Blomberg, Simone and Weisbecker, Vera (2022). Down a rabbit hole: burrowing behaviour and larger home ranges are related to larger brains in leporids. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 29 (4), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s10914-022-09624-6
Ristevski, Jorgo, Weisbecker, Vera, Scanlon, John D., Price, Gilbert J. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2022). Cranial anatomy of the mekosuchine crocodylian Trilophosuchus rackhami Willis, 1993. The Anatomical Record, 306 (2), 239-297. doi: 10.1002/ar.25050
Keirnan, Aubrey, Worthy, Trevor H., Smaers, Jeroen B., Mardon, Karine, Iwaniuk, Andrew N. and Weisbecker, Vera (2022). Not like night and day: the nocturnal letter-winged kite does not differ from diurnal congeners in orbit or endocast morphology. Royal Society Open Science, 9 (5) 220135, 220135. doi: 10.1098/rsos.220135
Bradshaw, Corey J.A., Chalker, Justin M., Crabtree, Stefani A., Eijkelkamp, Bart A., Long, John A., Smith, Justine R., Trinajstic, Kate and Weisbecker, Vera (2021). A fairer way to compare researchers at any career stage and in any discipline using open-access citation data. PLoS One, 16 (9 September) e0257141. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257141
Viacava, Pietro, Baker, Andrew M., Blomberg, Simone P., Phillips, Matthew J. and Weisbecker, Vera (2021). Using 3D geometric morphometrics to aid taxonomic and ecological understanding of a recent speciation event within a small Australian marsupial (Antechinus: Dasyuridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 196 (3) zlab048, 1-16. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab048
Ristevski, Jorgo, Price, Gilbert J., Weisbecker, Vera and Salisbury, Steven W. (2021). First record of a tomistomine crocodylian from Australia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 12158 , 12158. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91717-y
Weisbecker, Vera (2021). Evolution: bend it like basal synapsids. Current Biology, 31 (9), R437-R439. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.017
Smaers, J. B., Rothman, R. S., Hudson, D. R., Balanoff, A. M., Beatty, B., Dechmann, D. K.N., de Vries, D., Dunn, J. C., Fleagle, J. G., Gilbert, C. C., Goswami, A., Iwaniuk, A. N., Jungers, W. L., Kerney, M., Ksepka, D. T., Manger, P. R., Mongle, C. S., Rohlf, F. J., Smith, N. A., Soligo, C., Weisbecker, V. and Safi, K. (2021). The evolution of mammalian brain size. Science Advances, 7 (18) eabe2101, 1-12. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe2101
Todorov, Orlin S., Blomberg, Simone P., Goswami, Anjali, Sears, Karen, Drhlík, Patrik, Peters, James and Weisbecker, Vera (2021). Testing hypotheses of marsupial brain size variation using phylogenetic multiple imputations and a Bayesian comparative framework. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 (1947) rspb.2021.0394, 1-9. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0394
Weisbecker, Vera, Rowe, Timothy, Wroe, Stephen, Macrini, Thomas E., Garland, Kathleen L. S., Travouillon, Kenny J., Black, Karen, Archer, Michael, Hand, Suzanne J., Berlin, Jeri C., Beck, Robin M.D., Ladevèze, Sandrine, Sharp, Alana C., Mardon, Karine and Sherratt, Emma (2021). Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls. Evolution, 75 (3) evo.14163, 625-640. doi: 10.1111/evo.14163
Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Johnson, Christopher N., Llewelyn, John, Weisbecker, Vera, Strona, Giovanni and Saltré, Frédérik (2021). Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul’s megafauna. eLife, 10 e63870, 1-43. doi: 10.7554/eLife.63870
Whiteley, Sarah L., Georges, Arthur, Weisbecker, Vera, Schwanz, Lisa E. and Holleley, Clare E. (2021). Ovotestes suggest cryptic genetic influence in a reptile model for temperature-dependent sex determination. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 (1943) 20202819, 20202819. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2819
Newton, Axel H., Weisbecker, Vera, Pask, Andrew J. and Hipsley, Christy A. (2021). Ontogenetic origins of cranial convergence between the extinct marsupial thylacine and placental gray wolf. Communications Biology, 4 (1) 51, 51. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01569-x
Ristevski, Jorgo , Yates, Adam M. , Price, Gilbert J. , Molnar, Ralph E. , Weisbecker, Vera and Salisbury, Steven W. (2020). Australia’s prehistoric ‘swamp king’: revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886. PeerJ, 8 e10466, e10466. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10466
Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Keirnan, Aubrey R., Janetzki, Heather, Mardon, Karine, Murphy, Stephen, Leseberg, Nicholas P. and Weisbecker, Vera (2020). The endocast of the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) reveals insights into its sensory ecology and the evolution of nocturnality in birds. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 9258, 9258. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65156-0
Marcy, Ariel E., Guillerme, Thomas, Sherratt, Emma, Rowe, Kevin C., Phillips, Matthew J. and Weisbecker, Vera (2020). Australian rodents reveal conserved cranial evolutionary allometry across 10 million years of murid evolution. American Naturalist, 196 (6), 000-000. doi: 10.1086/711398
Guillerme, Thomas, Puttick, Mark N., Marcy, Ariel E. and Weisbecker, Vera (2020). Shifting spaces: which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?. Ecology and Evolution, 10 (14) ece3.6452, 7261-7275. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6452
Guillerme, Thomas, Cooper, Natalie, Brusatte, Stephen L., Davis, Katie E., Jackson, Andrew L., Gerber, Sylvain, Goswami, Anjali, Healy, Kevin, Hopkins, Melanie J., Jones, Marc E. H., Lloyd, Graeme T., O'Reilly, Joseph E., Pate, Abi, Puttick, Mark N., Rayfield, Emily J., Saupe, Erin E., Sherratt, Emma, Slater, Graham J., Weisbecker, Vera, Thomas, Gavin H. and Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2020). Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity: analysis of morphological disparity. Biology Letters, 16 (7) 20200199, 20200199. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0199
Viacava, Pietro, Blomberg, Simone P., Sansalone, Gabriele, Phillips, Matthew J., Guillerme, Thomas, Cameron, Skye F., Wilson, Robbie S. and Weisbecker, Vera (2020). Skull shape of a widely distributed, endangered marsupial reveals little evidence of local adaptation between fragmented populations. Ecology and Evolution, 10 (18) ece3.6593, 9707-9720. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6593
Butler, Kaylene, Travouillon, Kenny J., Evans, Alistair R., Murphy, Laura, Price, Gilbert J., Archer, Michael, Hand, Suzanne J. and Weisbecker, Vera (2020). 3D morphometric analysis reveals similar ecomorphs for early kangaroos (Macropodidae) and fanged kangaroos (Balbaridae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 28 (2), 199-219. doi: 10.1007/s10914-020-09507-8
Weisbecker, Vera, Speck, Cruise and Baker, Andrew M (2020). A tail of evolution: evaluating body length, weight and locomotion as potential drivers of tail length scaling in Australian marsupial mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 188 (1), 242-254. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz055
Weisbecker, Vera, Guillerme, Thomas, Speck, Cruise, Sherratt, Emma, Abraha, Hyab Mehari, Sharp, Alana C., Terhune, Claire E., Collins, Simon, Johnston, Stephen and Panagiotopoulou, Olga (2019). Individual variation of the masticatory system dominates 3D skull shape in the herbivory-adapted marsupial wombats. Frontiers in Zoology, 16 (1) 41, 41. doi: 10.1186/s12983-019-0338-5
Todorov, Orlin S., Weisbecker, Vera, Gilissen, Emmanuel, Zilles, Karl and de Sousa, Alexandra A. (2019). Primate hippocampus size and organization are predicted by sociality but not diet. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1914) 20191712, 20191712. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1712
Whiteley, Sarah L., Weisbecker, Vera, Georges, Arthur, Gauthier, Arnault Roger Gaston, Whitehead, Darryl L. and Holleley, Clare E. (2018). Developmental asynchrony and antagonism of sex determination pathways in a lizard with temperature-induced sex reversal. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 14892, 14892. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-33170-y
Marcy, Ariel E., Fruciano, Carmelo, Phillips, Matthew J., Mardon, Karine and Weisbecker, Vera (2018). Low resolution scans can provide a sufficiently accurate, cost- and time-effective alternative to high resolution scans for 3D shape analyses. PeerJ, 6 (6) e5032, e5032. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5032
Herne, Matthew C., Tait, Alan M., Weisbecker, Vera, Hall, Michael, Nair, Jay P., Cleeland, Michael and Salisbury, Steven W. (2018). A new small-bodied ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from a deep, high-energy Early Cretaceous river of the Australian-Antarctic rift system. PeerJ, 5 (1) e4113, 1-77. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4113
Whiteley, Sarah L, Holleley, Clare E, Ruscoe, Wendy A, Castelli, Meghan, Whitehead, Darryl L, Lei, Juan, Georges, Arthur and Weisbecker, Vera (2017). Sex determination mode does not affect body or genital development of the central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps). EvoDevo, 8 (1) 25, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s13227-017-0087-5
Fruciano, Carmelo, Celik, Melina A., Butler, Kaylene, Dooley, Tom, Weisbecker, Vera and Phillips, Matthew J. (2017). Sharing is caring? Measurement error and the issues arising from combining 3D morphometric datasets. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (17), 7034-7046. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3256
Carlisle, Alison, Selwood, Lynne, Hinds, Lyn A., Saunders, Norman, Habgood, Mark, Mardon, Karine and Weisbecker, Vera (2017). Testing hypotheses of developmental constraints on mammalian brain partition evolution, using marsupials. Scientific Reports, 7 (1) 4241, 4241. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-02726-9
Casewell, Nicholas R., Visser, Jeroen C., Baumann, Kate, Dobson, James, Han, Han, Kuruppu, Sanjaya, Morgan, Michael, Romilio, Anthony, Weisbecker, Vera, Mardon, Karine, Ali, Syed A., Debono, Jordan, Koludarov, Ivan, Que, Ivo, Bird, Gregory C., Cooke, Gavan M., Nouwens, Amanda, Hodgson, Wayne C., Wagstaff, Simon C., Cheney, Karen L., Vetter, Irina, van der Weerd, Louise, Richardson, Michael K. and Fry, Bryan G. (2017). The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes (vol 27, pg 1184, 2017). Current Biology, 27 (10), 1549-1550. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.009
Debono, Jordan, Dobson, James, Casewell, Nicholas R., Romilio, Anthony, Li, Bin, Kurniawan, Nyoman, Mardon, Karine, Weisbecker, Vera, Nouwens, Amanda , Kwok, Hang Fai and Fry, Bryan G. (2017). Coagulating colubrids: evolutionary, pathophysiological and biodiscovery implications of venom variations between boomslang (Dispholidus typus) and twig snake (Thelotornis mossambicanus). Toxins, 9 (5) 171, 171. doi: 10.3390/toxins9050171
Davies, Thomas G., Rahman, Imran A., Lautenschlager, Stephan, Cunningham, John A., Asher, Robert J., Barrett, Paul M., Bates, Paul M., Bengtson, Stefan, Benson, Roger B. J., Boyer, Doug M., Braga, Jose, Bright, Jen A., Claessens, Leon P. A. M., Cox, Philip G., Dong, Xi-Ping, Evans, Alistair R., Falkingham, Peter L., Friedman, Matt, Garwood, Russell J., Goswami, Anjali, Hutchinson, John R., Jeffery, Nathan S., Johanson, Zerina, Lebrun, Renaud, Martinez-Perez, Carlos, Marugan-Lobon, Jesus, O'Higgins, Paul M., Metscher, Brian, Orliac, Maeva ... Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2017). Open data and digital morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B- Biological Sciences, 284 (1852) 20170194, 20170194. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0194
Casewell, Nicholas R., Visser, Jeroen C., Baumann, Kate, Dobson, James, Han, Han, Kuruppu, Sanjaya, Morgan, Michael, Romilio, Anthony, Weisbecker, Vera, Ali, Syed A., Debono, Jordan, Koludarov, Ivan, Que, Ivo, Bird, Gregory C., Cooke, Gavan M., Nouwens, Amanda, Hodgson, Wayne C., Wagstaff, Simon C., Cheney, Karen L., Vetter, Irina, van der Weerd, Louise, Richardson, Michael K. and Fry, Bryan G. (2017). The evolution of fangs, venom, and mimicry systems in blenny fishes. Current Biology, 27 (8), 1184-1191. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.067
Garland, Kathleen, Marcy, Ariel, Sherratt, Emma and Weisbecker, Vera (2017). Out on a limb: bandicoot limb co-variation suggests complex impacts of development and adaptation on marsupial forelimb evolution. Evolution and Development, 19 (2), 69-84. doi: 10.1111/ede.12220
Marcy, Ariel E., Hadly, Elizabeth A., Sherratt, Emma, Garland, Kathleen and Weisbecker, Vera (2016). Getting a head in hard soils: convergent skull evolution and divergent allometric patterns explain shape variation in a highly diverse genus of pocket gophers (Thomomys). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16 (1) 207, 1-16. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0782-1
Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor E., Weisbecker, Vera, Wroe, Stephen and Phillips, Matthew (2016). Resolving the evolution of the mammalian middle ear using Bayesian inference. Frontiers in Zoology, 13 (39) 39, 39. doi: 10.1186/s12983-016-0171-z
Ramirez-Chaves, Hector E., Wroe, Stephen W., Selwood, Lynne, Hinds, Lyn A., Leigh, Chris, Koyabu, Daisuke, Kardjilov, Nikolay and Weisbecker, Vera (2016). Mammalian development does not recapitulate suspected key transformations in the evolutionary detachment of the mammalian middle ear. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283 (1822) 20152606, 20152606. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2606
Weisbecker, Vera, Blomberg, Simon, Goldizen, Anne W, Brown, Meredeth and Fisher, Diana (2015). The Evolution of Relative Brain Size in Marsupials Is Energetically Constrained but Not Driven by Behavioral Complexity. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 85 (2), 125-135. doi: 10.1159/000377666
Weisbecker, Vera and Goswami, Anjali (2014). Reassessing the relationship between brain size, life history, and metabolism at the marsupial/placental dichotomy. Zoological Science, 31 (9), 608-612. doi: 10.2108/zs140022
Soul, Laura C., Benson, Roger B. J. and Weisbecker, Vera (2013). Multiple regression modeling for estimating endocranial volume in extinct Mammalia. Paleobiology, 39 (1), 149-162. doi: 10.1666/0094-8373-39.1.149
Goswami, A., Foley, L. and Weisbecker, V. (2013). Patterns and implications of extensive heterochrony in carnivoran cranial suture closure. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26 (6), 1294-1306. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12127
Weisbecker, Vera, Ashwell, Ken and Fisher, Diana (2013). An improved body mass dataset for the study of marsupial brain size evolution. Brain Behavior and Evolution, 82 (2), 81-82. doi: 10.1159/000348647
Weisbecker, Vera (2012). Distortion in formalin-fixed brains: Using geometric morphometrics to quantify the worst-case scenario in mice. Brain Structure and Function, 217 (2), 677-685. doi: 10.1007/s00429-011-0366-1
Hautier, Lionel, Weisbecker, Vera, Goswami, Anjali, Knight, Frank, Kardjilov, Nikolai and Asher, Robert (2011). Skeletal ossification and sequence heterochrony in xenarthran evolution. Evolution and Development, 13 (5), 460-476. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00503.x
Weisbecker, Vera and Goswami, Anjali (2011). Marsupials indeed confirm an ancestral mammalian pattern: A reply to Isler. BioEssays, 33 (5), 358-361. doi: 10.1002/bies.201100013
Weisbecker, Vera (2011). Monotreme ossification sequences and the riddle of mammalian skeletal development. Evolution, 65 (5), 1323-1335. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01234.x
Weisbecker, Vera and Goswami, Anjali (2011). Neonatal maturity as the key to understanding brain size evolution in homeothermic vertebrates. BioEssays, 33 (3), 155-158. doi: 10.1002/bies.201000128
Weisbecker, Vera and Mitgutsch, Christian (2010). A large-scale survey of heterochrony in anuran cranial ossification patterns. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 48 (4), 332-347. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00570.x
Weisbecker, Vera and Goswami, Anjali (2010). Brain size, life history, and metabolism at the marsupial/placental dichotomy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107 (37), 16216-16221. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0906486107
Weisbecker, Vera (2010). Author’s reply to: Late still equals large. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 75 (1), 7-7. doi: 10.1159/000295351
Weisbecker, V. (2009). Why "late equals large" does not work. Neuroscience, 164 (4), 1648-1652. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.09.027
Hand, Suzanne J., Weisbecker, Vera, Beck, Robin M. D., Archer, Michael, Godthelp, Henk, Tennyson, Alan J. D. and Worthy, Trevor H. (2009). Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9 (1) 169, 169.1-169.13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-169
Goswami, A., Weisbecker, V. and Sanchez-Villagra, M. R. (2009). Developmental modularity and the marsupial-placental dichotomy. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B-Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 312B (3), 186-195. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.21283
Weisbecker, Vera, Richards, Stephen and Norman, Jenny (2009). Methods for inexpensive, nonintrusive detection of skeletal elements in small zoological specimens using micro-computed tomography. Herpetological Review, 40 (2), 165-168.
Sanchez-Villagra, Marcelo R., Goswami, Anjali, Weisbecker, Vera, Mock, Orin and Kuratani, Shigeru (2008). Conserved relative timing of cranial ossification patterns in early mammalian evolution. Evolution and Development, 10 (5), 519-530. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00267.x
Weisbecker, Vera, Goswami, Anjali, Wroe, Stephen and Sanchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (2008). Ossification heterochrony in the therian postcranial skeleton and the marsupial-placental dichotomy. Evolution, 62 (8), 2027-2041. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00424.x
Weisbecker, Vera and Nilsson, Maria (2008). Integration, heterochrony, and adaptation in pedal digits of syndactylous marsupials. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8 (1) 160, 160.1-160.14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-160
Beck, Robin M. D., Godthelp, Henk, Weisbecker, Vera, Archer, Michael and Hand, Suzanne J. (2008). Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications. PLoS One, 3 (3) e1858, 1-8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001858
Weisbecker, Vera and Archer, Michael (2008). Parallel evolution of hand anatomy in kangaroos and vombatiform marsupials: functional and evolutionary implications. Palaeontology, 51 (2), 321-338. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00750.x
Weisbecker, Vera and Schmid, Simone (2007). Autopodial skeletal diversity in hystricognath rodents: Functional and phylogenetic aspects. Mammalian Biology, 72 (1), 27-44. doi: 10.1016/j.mambio.2006.03.005
Weisbecker, Vera and Warton, David I. (2006). Evidence at hand: diversity, functional implications, and locomotor prediction in intrinsic hand proportions of diprotodontian marsupials. Journal of Morphology, 267 (12), 1469-1485. doi: 10.1002/jmor.10495
Weisbecker, V. and Sanchez-Villagra, M. R. (2006). Carpal evolution in diprotodontian marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 146 (3), 369-384. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00208.x
Conference Papers
Debono, Jordan, Dobson, James, Casewell, Nicholas R., Romilio, Anthony, Li, Bin, Kurniawan, Nyoman, Mardon, Karine, Weisbecker, Vera, Nouwens, Amanda, Kwok, Hang Fai and Fry, Bryan G. (2019). Coagulating colubrids: evolutionary, pathophysiological and biodiscovery implications of venom variations between Dispholidus typus and Thelotornis mossambicanus. 19th World Congress of the International-Society-on-Toxinology (IST) / 11th Asia Pacific Congress of the International-Society-on-Toxinology (IST) / 13th Chinese Conference on Toxins and Medical Applications, Haikou, Peoples Republic of China, 24-31 October 2017. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2018.10.144
Goswami, Anjali, Randau, Marcela, Polly, P. David, Weisbecker, Vera, Bennett, C. Verity, Hautier, Lionel and Sanchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (2016). Do developmental constraints and high integration limit the evolution of the marsupial oral apparatus?. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/icb/icw039
Goswami, Anjali, Weisbecker, Vera and Villagra, Marcelo (2008). Developmental modularity and the marsupial-placental dichotomy. 68th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Cleveland, United States, 15-18 October 2008. Philadelphia, United States: Taylor & Francis.