Chapters in Books

Swartz, H. M. and S. M. Swartz. 1983 Biochemical and Biophysical Applications of Electron Spin Resonance. in Methods of Biochemical Analysis, volume 29, D. Glick, ed. pp. 207-323. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.

Swartz, S. M. and A. A. Biewener. 1992. Shape and scaling. in Biomechanics: A Practical Approach.
Vol. 2. Structures. (A. A. Biewener, ed.). pp. 20-43. Oxford University Press.

Swartz, S. M. 1993. The biomechanics of primate limbs. in Postcranial Adaptation in Nonhuman Primates (D. L. Gebo, ed.). pp. 5-42. Northern Illinois University Press.

Swartz. S. M. 1998. Skin and bones: the mechanical properties of bat wing tissues. in Bats: Phylogeny, Morphology, Echolocation, and Conservation Biology. (T. H. Kunz and P. A. Racey, eds.) Smithsonian Institution Press.

Swartz, S. M., P. Freeman, and E. Stockwell. In press. Ecomorphology. in Bat Ecology. (T. H. Kunz, ed.) The University of Chicago Press.

Swartz, S. M., Bishop, K. L., and Ismael-Aguirre, M. F.* In press. Bat flight aerodynamics: new insights from three-dimensional kinematic analysis. In Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats (Z. Akbar, G. F. McCracken, and T. H. Kunz, eds). Oxford University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles (*undergraduate co-authors)

Biewener, A. A., S. M. Swartz and J. E. A. Bertram. 1986. Bone modeling during growth: dynamic strain equilibrium in the chick tibia. Calcified Tissue International 39:390-395.

Swartz, S. M. 1987. Skeletal biomechanics and suspensory locomotion: preliminary results of in vivo bone strain analysis of brachiating gibbons. Proceedings of the American Society of Biomechanics 3:151-153.

Swartz, S. M., A. A. Biewener, and J. E. A. Bertram. 1989. Telemetered in vivo strain analysis of locomotor mechanics of brachiating gibbons. Nature 342:270-272.

Swartz, S. M. 1989. The functional morphology of weight bearing: limb joint surface area allometry in anthropoid primates. Journal of Zoology, London 218:441-460.

Swartz, S. M. 1990. Curvature of the limb bones of anthropoid primates: overall allometric patterns and specializations in suspensory species. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 83(4):477-498.

Swartz, S. M. 1990. Pendular mechanics and the kinematics and energetics of brachiating locomotion. International Journal of Primatology 10(5):387-418.

Swartz, S. M. 1991. Strain analysis as a tool for functional morphology. American Zoologist 31(4):655-669.

Bertram, J. E. A. and S. M. Swartz. 1991. The "Law of bone transformation": A case of crying Wolff? Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 22(3):245-273.

Anton, S. C*., C. R. Jaslow and S. M. Swartz. 1992. Sutural complexity in artificially deformed human (Homo sapiens) crania. Journal of Morphology 214:321-322.

Swartz, S. M., M. B. Bennett, and D. R. Carrier. 1992. Wing bone stresses in free flying bats and the evolution of skeletal design for flight. Nature 359:726-729.

Halgrimmsson, B.* and S. M. Swartz. 1995. Morphological adaptation in the hylobatid ulna: cross-sectional geometry and skeletal loading. Journal of Morphology 224:111-123.

Swartz, S. M., M. D. Groves*, H. D. Kim* and W. R. Walsh. 1996. Mechanical properties of bat wing membrane skin: aerodynamic and mechanical functions. Journal of Zoology, London, 239:357-378.

Papadimitriou, H. M. *, S. M. Swartz, and T. H. Kunz. 1996. Ontogenetic and anatomic variation in mineralization of the wing skeleton of the Mexican free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis. Journal of Zoology, London, 240:411-426.

Swartz, S. M. 1997. Allometric patterning in the limb skeleton of bats: Implications for the mechanics and energetics of powered flight. Journal of Morphology, 234:277-294.

Swartz, S. M., A. Parker*, and C. Huo*. 1997. Theoretical and empirical scaling patterns and topological homology in bone trabeculae. Journal of Experimental Biology, 201:573-590.

Watts, P., E. J. Mitchell*, and S. M. Swartz. 2001. A computational model for estimating mechanics of horizontal flapping flight in bats. Model description and comparison with experimental results. Journal of Experimental Biology. 204: 2873-2898.

Book Reviews

A Theory of Human and Primate Evolution, by Colin P. Groves. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989. International Journal of Primatology 1990, 11(6):607-609.

Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight, by Pat Shipman. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1998. Science 281(5375):355-356.

Prime Mover; a Natural History of Muscle by Steven Vogel. Norton, New York, 2002. Science 295:1650-1651.

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