Mason Dean

Publications

• Large batoid fishes frequently consume stingrays despite skeletal damage
• Groovy and Gnarly
• Feeding in Cartilaginous Fishes: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis
• Mechanical properties of stingray tesserae: High-resolution correlative analysis of mineral density and indentation moduli in tessellated cartilage
• Automated segmentation of complex patterns in biological tissues: Lessons from stingray tessellated cartilage
• The Multiscale Architectures of Fish Bone and Tessellated Cartilage and Their Relation to Function
• Mechanical behavior of idealized, stingray-skeleton-inspired tiled composites as a function of geometry and material properties
• High-Throughput Segmentation of Tiled Biological Structures using Random Walk Distance Transforms
• Uncovering Nature's Design Strategies through Parametric Modeling, Multi-Material 3D Printing, and Mechanical Testing
• From Improved Diagnostics to Presurgical Planning: High-Resolution Functionally Graded Multimaterial 3D Printing of Biomedical Tomographic Data Sets
• Calcified cartilage or bone? Collagens in the tessellated endoskeletons of cartilaginous fish (sharks and rays)
• Revisiting the links between bone remodelling and osteocytes: insights from across phyla
• Pre-procedural fit-testing of TAVR valves using parametric modeling and 3D printing
• The multiscale architecture of tessellated cartilage and its relation to function
• A novel nonosteocytic regulatory mechanism of bone modeling
• The helmeted hornbill casque is reinforced by a bundle of exceptionally thick, rod‐like trabeculae
• A load frame for in situ tomography at PETRA III
• Ontogeny of a tessellated surface: Carapace growth of the longhorn cowfish Lactoria cornuta
• A 3D Network of Nanochannels for Possible Ion and Molecule Transit in Mineralizing Bone and Cartilage
• A Kendall Shape Space Approach to 3D Shape Estimation from 2D Landmarks
• Shape-preserving erosion controlled by the graded microarchitecture of shark tooth enameloid
• 3D relationship between hierarchical canal network and gradient mineralization of shark tooth osteodentin
• Co-aligned chondrocytes: Zonal morphological variation and structured arrangement of cell lacunae in tessellated cartilage
• Endoskeletal mineralization in chimaera and a comparative guide to tessellated cartilage in chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays and chimaera)
• Breast cancer–secreted factors perturb murine bone growth in regions prone to metastasis
• Adaptation and evolution of biological materials
• Bioinspired design of flexible armor based on chiton scales
• Multi-scale modeling and mechanical performance characterization of stingray skeleton-inspired tessellations
• Ribbontail Stingray Skin Employs a Core–Shell Photonic Glass Ultrastructure to Make Blue Structural Color
• Image analysis pipeline for segmentation of a biological porosity network, the lacuno-canalicular system in stingray tesserae
• The helmeted hornbill's hammer
• Autofluorescence of stingray skeletal cartilage
• Mineralization of the Callorhinchus Vertebral Column (Holocephali; Chondrichthyes)
• Ecological and Phenotypic Diversification after a Continental Invasion in Neotropical Freshwater Stingrays
• Biomechanics of the jaws of spotted ratfish
• Bricks, trusses and superstructures
• Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola
• Lessons from really big fish
• Hyperossification in the vertebral column of Devonian placoderm fishes (Arthrodira)
• The helmeted hornbill’s hammer
• Independent Transitions to Freshwater Environments Promote Phenotypic Divergence, Not Convergence, in Stingrays
• Intermediate filaments spatially organize intracellular nanostructures to produce the bright structural blue of ribbontail stingrays across ontogeny
• Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola
• Armed to the teeth
• The bizarre bulbous bucklers of skates: Denticles, dermal bone or something else?
• Structural blues in stingrays and sharks
• Helmeted hornbill cranial kinesis: Balancing mobility and stability in a high‐impact joint
• Cartilaginous fish skeletal tissues
• Comparative architecture of the tessellated boxfish (Ostracioidea) carapace
• Growth of a Tessellation: Geometric rules for the Development of Stingray Skeletal Patterns
• A deepwater fish with 'lightsabers' - Dorsal spine-associated luminescence in a counterilluminating lanternshark
• Relation between the Macroscopic Pattern of Elephant Ivory and Its Three-Dimensional Micro-Tubular Network
• Ultrastructural, material and crystallographic description of endophytic masses – A possible damage response in shark and ray tessellated calcified cartilage
• Rapid self-assembly of complex biomolecular architectures during mussel byssus biofabrication
• Cartilaginous Fish Skeletal Anatomy
• To make a fish fly
• Suction Feeding in the Pipid Frog, Hymenochirus boettgeri: Kinematic and Behavioral Considerations
• Comparison of structural, architectural and mechanical aspects of cellular and acellular bone in two teleost fish
• The skeleton | Cartilaginous Fish Skeletal Anatomy
• Mineralized cartilage in the skeleton of chondrichthyan fishes
• Direct MicroCT imaging of non-mineralized connective tissues at high resolution
• Myological variability in a decoupled skeletal system: Batoid cranial anatomy
• Remodeling in bone without osteocytes: Billfish challenge bone structure-function paradigms
• Colocation and role of polyphosphates and alkaline phosphatase in apatite biomineralization of elasmobranch tesserae
• Stress relaxation behavior of tessellated cartilage from the jaws of blue sharks
• Feeding biomechanics and theoretical calculations of bite force in bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) during ontogeny
• Pairwise modulation of jaw muscle activity in two species of elasmobranchs
• Tooth reorientation affects tooth function during prey processing and tooth ontogeny in the lesser electric ray, Narcine brasiliensis
• Uniform strain in broad muscles: Active and passive effects of the twisted tendon of the spotted ratfish Hydrolagus colliei
• The structure-mechanics relationship and the response to load of the acellular bone of neoteleost fish: A review
• Very low pressures drive ventilatory flow in chimaeroid fishes
• The skeleton | Cartilaginous Fish Skeletal Tissues
• Canaliculi in the tessellated skeleton of cartilaginous fishes
• Ontogeny of the tessellated skeleton: Insight from the skeletal growth of the round stingray Urobatis halleri
• Composite model of the shark's skeleton in bending: A novel architecture for biomimetic design of functional compression bias
• Hard prey, soft jaws and the ontogeny of feeding mechanics in the spotted ratfish Hydrolagus colliei
• Evolution of asynchronous motor activity in paired muscles: Effects of ecology, morphology, and phylogeny
• Biomaterials: Properties, variation and evolution
• Three-dimensional computer analysis of white shark jaw mechanics: How hard can a great white bite?
• The evolution of cranial design, diet, and feeding mechanisms in batoid fishes
• Biomechanics: Fish feeding hardly a drag
• Functional morphology of jaw trabeculation in the lesser electric ray Narcine brasiliensis, with comments on the evolution of structural support in the Batoidea
• Prey capture behavior and kinematics of the Atlantic cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus
• Eating without hands or tongue: Specialization, elaboration and the evolution of prey processing mechanisms in cartilaginous fishes
• Aerial and aquatic feeding in the silver arawana, Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
• Husbandry notes on the lesser electric ray
• Anatomy and functional morphology of the feeding apparatus of the lesser electric ray, Narcine brasiliensis (Elasmobranchii: Batoidea)
• Feeding behavior and kinematics of the lesser electric ray, Narcine brasiliensis (Elasmobranchii: Batoidea)
• Ultrastructural and developmental features of the tessellated endoskeleton of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays)
• The mechanics of tessellations-bioinspired strategies for fracture resistance
• Mineral homeostasis and regulation of mineralization processes in the skeletons of sharks, rays and relatives (Elasmobranchii)
• Feeding in billfishes: Inferring the role of the rostrum from a biomechanical standpoint
• Morphology does not predict performance: Jaw curvature and prey crushing in durophagous stingrays
• Erratum: Hard prey, soft jaws and the ontogeny of feeding mechanics in the spotted ratfish Hydrolagus colliei
• Sharkitectural solutions to multi-scale filter design
• Cartilaginous Fish Skeletal Tissues