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A. Richard Palmer

A. Richard Palmer

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
7534
World Ranking
6313
National Ranking
390

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

A. Richard Palmer is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research encompasses multiple areas within biology and related interdisciplinary fields.

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Palmer include:

  • Evolution of left-right asymmetry in side-resting (pleurothetic) bivalves: a test of genes as leaders or followers, 2024, Journal of Molluscan Studies
  • How do gastropods grow synchronized shell sculpture? Effect of experimental varix manipulations on shell growth by Ceratostoma foliatum (Muricidae: Ocenebrinae), 2024, Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • Classifying organisms and artefacts by their outline shapes, 2022, Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Snaps of a tiny amphipod push the boundary of ultrafast, repeatable movement, 2021, Current Biology
  • nkx3.2 mutant zebrafish accommodate jaw joint loss through a phenocopy of the head shapes of Paleozoic jawless fish, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Palmer multiple times include:

  • Arianna Salili-James
  • Anne Mackay
  • Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez
  • Diana Rodríguez Pérez
  • Thomas Mannack

The venues where Palmer has regularly contributed to publications comprise:

  • Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Journal of Molluscan Studies

The main subfields of study for Palmer's work are:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Paleontology
  • Geometry and Topology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology

Palmer's research topics cover:

  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology

In 2007, Palmer was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada under the Academy of Science category.

Best Publications

  • Fluctuating asymmetry analyses: a primer

    A. Richard Palmer

  • Symmetry breaking and the evolution of development.

    A. Richard Palmer

  • QUASIREPLICATION AND THE CONTRACT OF ERROR: Lessons from Sex Ratios, Heritabilities and Fluctuating Asymmetry

    A. Richard Palmer

  • FISH PREDATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF GASTROPOD SHELL SCULPTURE: EXPERIMENTAL AND GEOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE.

    A. Richard Palmer

  • Detecting publication bias in meta-analyses: A case study of fluctuating asymmetry and sexual selection

    A. Richard Palmer

  • From symmetry to asymmetry: Phylogenetic patterns of asymmetry variation in animals and their evolutionary significance

    A. Richard Palmer

  • Effect of crab effluent and scent of damaged conspecifics on feeding, growth, and shell morphology of the Atlantic dogwhelk Nucella lapillus (L.)

    A. Richard Palmer

  • Morphological phylogeny of alpheid shrimps : Parallel preadaptation and the origin of a key morphological innovation, the snapping claw

    Arthur Anker;Shane T. Ahyong;Pierre Y. Noël;A. Richard Palmer

  • Do carbonate skeletons limit the rate of body growth

    A. Richard Palmer

  • EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF NORTHERN HEMISPHERE NUCELLA (GASTROPODA, MURICIDAE): MOLECULAR, MORPHOLOGICAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND PALEONTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

    Timothy M. Collins;Kenneth Frazer;A. Richard Palmer;Geerat J. Vermeij

  • Effects of Manipulated Diet on Size and Performance of Brachyuran Crab Claws

    L. David Smith;A. Richard Palmer

  • Left–right patterning from the inside out: Widespread evidence for intracellular control

    Michael Levin;A. Richard Palmer

  • Elevated CO2 affects shell dissolution rate but not calcification rate in a marine snail

    Sarah Nienhuis;Sarah Nienhuis;A. Richard Palmer;A. Richard Palmer;Christopher D. G. Harley

  • Chimpanzee Right-Handedness Reconsidered: Evaluating the Evidence With Funnel Plots

    A. Richard Palmer

  • Hagfish from the Cretaceous Tethys Sea and a reconciliation of the morphological–molecular conflict in early vertebrate phylogeny

    Tetsuto Miyashita;Tetsuto Miyashita;Michael I. Coates;Robert Farrar;Peter Larson

  • Growth rate as a measure of food value in thaidid gastropods: Assumptions and implications for prey morphology and distribution

    A.Richard Palmer

  • Prey selection by thaidid gastropods: some observational and experimental field tests of foraging models

    A. Richard Palmer

  • SIZE-DEPENDENT ASYMMETRY: FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY VERSUS ANTISYMMETRY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CONDITION-DEPENDENT SIGNALING.

    Locke Rowe;Richard R. Repasky;A. Richard Palmer

  • Widespread cloning in echinoderm larvae

    Alexandra A. Eaves;Alexandra A. Eaves;A. Richard Palmer;A. Richard Palmer

  • Precise tuning of barnacle leg length to coastal wave action

    David J. Arsenault;Kerry B. Marchinko;A. Richard Palmer

  • Scale of dispersal in varying environments and its implications for life histories of marine invertebrates

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Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey C. Trussell
Geoffrey C. Trussell Northeastern University
Curtis Strobeck
Curtis Strobeck University of Alberta
Christopher D. G. Harley
Christopher D. G. Harley University of British Columbia
Susumu Ohtsuka
Susumu Ohtsuka Hiroshima University
Michael I. Coates
Michael I. Coates University of Chicago
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Philip J. Currie
Philip J. Currie University of Alberta
Wesley M. Brown
Wesley M. Brown University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Levin
Michael Levin Tufts University
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum

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