Sadier Lab

Research focus

ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023

Exploring the origin and diversification of mammalian tooth classes

One long-standing question in evolutionary biology is: how do new morphological innovations arise? Integrative advances in palaeontology, genomics, development and evolution have unveiled general principles behind evolutionary novelties. However, we are far from understanding the mechanisms by which novelties emerge from ancestral genomic and developmental programs and then diversify in new ecological contexts. To solve this problem, my research uses the dramatic morphological and ecological diversity of bat teeth as a model system to study the origin and diversification of a major mammalian innovation, the tooth classes. Using morphological, genomic, developmental and modelling approaches…

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