Selected publications from the laboratory

Goslow, G.E., Jr. 1999. The origin of bird flight: Roundtable Report. In: Paleontology at the
close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontolgy and Evolution. Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996. Olson, Storrs L. (ed.). Smithsonian Contributions to Avian Paleontology, p. 341-344.

Goslow, G.E., Jr., Wilson, D.S., and Poore, S.O. 1999. Neuromuscular correlates to
the functional reorganization for flight of the M. Supracoracoideus. In: Homberger, D. & Zweers, G. (Eds.), Proceedings 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr., Durban, University of Natal.

Goslow, G.E., Jr, D.S. Wilson, and S. O. Poore. 2000. Organization of motor pools and histochemical composition of the flight muscles in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris). Brain, Behavior and Evolution 55:85-99.

Kovacs, D.E. and R.A. Meyers 2000. Anatomy and histochemistry of flight muscles in a wing-
propelled diving bird, the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica. J. Morph., 244:109-125.

Meyers, R.A. 1993. Gliding flight in the American kestrel (Falco sparverius): An
electromyographic study. J. Morph., 215:213-224.

Meyers, R.A. 1992. The morphological basis of floded-wing posture in the American kestrel,
Falco sparverius. Anat. Rec., 232:493-498.

Meyers, R.A. 1992. Morphology of the shoulder musculature of the American kestrel, Falco
sparverius (AVES), with implications for gliding flight. Zoomorphology, 112:91-103.

Ostrom, J., S.O. Poore and G.E. Goslow, Jr. 1999. Humeral rotation and wrist supination: Important functional complex for the evolution of powered flight in birds? In: Paleontology at the close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontolgy and Evolution. Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996. Olson, Storrs L. (ed.). Smithsonian Contributions to Avian Paleontology, p. 301-309.

Poore, S.O., A. Sanchez-Haiman and G.E. Goslow, Jr. 1997. Wing upstroke and the evolution of
flapping flight. Nature 387: 799-802.

Poore, S.O., A. Ashcroft, A. Sanchez-Haiman and G.E. Goslow, Jr. 1997. The contractile properties of the M. supracoracoideus in the pigeon and starling: A case for long-axis rotation of the humerus. J. exp. Biol., 200: 2987-3002.

Sokoloff, A.J., J.M. Ryan, E. Valerie, D.S. Wilson and G.E. Goslow, Jr. 1998. Neuromuscular
organization of Avian flight muscle: Morphology and contractile properties of motor units in the pectoralis (pars thoracicus) of pigeon (Columba livia). J. Morph. 236:179-208.

Sokoloff, A. J. and G.E. Goslow, Jr. l999. Neuromuscular organization of avian flight muscle: architecture of single muscle fibres in muscle units of the pectoralis (pars thoracicus) of pigeon (Columba livia). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 354:917-925.

Sokoloff, A.J., J. Gray-Chickering, J.D. Harry, S.O. Poore and G.E. Goslow, Jr. 2001. The function of the supracoracoideus muscle during takeoff in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris): Maxheinz Sy revisited. In: Jacques Gauthier and Lawrence F. Gall, (eds.) New perspectives on the origin and early evolution of birds : proceedings of the international symposium in honor of John H. Ostrom; 1999 Feb 12–14; New Haven, CT. New Haven: Peabody Mus. Nat. Hist., Yale Univ. 613 pp.

Vazquez, R.J. 1992. Functional osteology of the Avian wrist and the evolution of flapping flight. J. Morph., 211:259-268.

Vazquez, R.J. 1995. Functional antomy of the pigeon hand (Columba livia): A muscle stimulation study. J. Morph. 226:33-45.

Woolley, J.D. 2000. The functional morphology of the Avian flight muscle M. coracobrachialis posterior. J. Exp. Biol.,

203:1767-1776.

Book

Hildebrand, M. and G.E. Goslow, Jr. 2001. Analysis of Vertebrate Structure. John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. 635 p.

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