Please contact me if you would like a reprint of any of these manuscripts:
2011
Franz-Odendaal, TA. 2011. Scleral ossicles through the Evo-devo looking glass. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Part B: Molecular Evolution and Development. In press.
Franz-Odendaal,TA. Induction and patterning of intramembranous bone. Frontiers in Biosciences. Special Issue – Signaling Mechanisms in Development (invited) (in press)
Franz-Odendaal TA. 2011. Epigenetics in bone and cartilage development. In: B. Hallgrimsson and BK Hall (eds), Epigenetics: Linking genotype and phenotype in development and evolution. University California Press. (pp. 195-220)
2010
Edsall, S and Franz-Odendaal TA. 2010. A whole-mount protocol for staining osteoblasts and osteoclasts in Teleosts. Zebrafish 7:3:275-280.
Schonthaler HB*, Franz-Odendaal TA*, Hodel C, Gehring I, Geisler, R, Schwarz, H, Neuhauss, SC, Dahm, R. 2010. The zebrafish mutant bumper shows secondary fibre cell degeneration in the lens leading to functional blindness associated with altered skull morphology. Mechanism of Development 127: 203-219. (*authors contributed equally)
2009
Varatharasan N, Croll, R, Franz-Odendaal TA. 2009. Taste bud morphology, number and distribution during development in sighted and blind morphs of Astyanax mexicanus. Developmental Dynamics.238: 3056-3064.
Pilgrim BL, and Franz-Odendaal TA. 2009. A comparative study of the ocular skeleton of fossil and modern chondrichthyes. Journal of Anatomy 214: 848-858.
2008
Franz-Odendaal TA. 2008. Towards understanding the development of scleral ossicles in chicken embryos. Developmental Dynamics. 237: 3240-3251.
Franz-Odendaal TA. 2008. The scleral ossicles of Teleostei: Evolutionary and Developmental Trends. The Anatomical Record 291:161-168.
Franz-Odendaal TA. 2008. Whole-mount staining of larval and adult zebrafish. In: The Zebrafish Book: a guide to the laboratory use of the zebrafish Danio, M. Westerfield (ed). University of Oregon Press, Eugene, 2008, pp 8.19-8.21.
2007
Franz-Odendaal T, Ryan K, Hall, BK. 2007. Developmental and morphological variation in the teleost craniofacial skeleton reveals an unusual mode of ossification. Journal of Experimental Zoology, (Mol Dev Evol) 308B: 709-721.
Clauss, M., Franz-Odendaal, T.A., Brasch, J., Castell, J.C., and Kaiser, T. 2007. Tooth wear in captive giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis): mesowear analysis classifies free-ranging specimens as browsers but captive ones as grazers. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 38:433-455.
2006
Franz-Odendaal TA, and Hall BK. 2006. Skeletal elements within teleost eyes and a discussion on homology. Journal of Morphology. 267: 1326-1337.
Franz-Odendaal TA and Vikaryous MV. 2006. Skeletal elements in the vertebrate eye and adnexa – morphological and developmental perspectives. Review for a Special Issue on Craniofacial Development Developmental Dynamics 235: 1244-1255.
Franz-Odendaal TA. 2006. Intramembranous ossification of scleral ossicles in Chelydra serpentina. Zoology 109:75-81.
Franz-Odendaal TA, and Hall BK. 2006. Modularity and sense organs in the blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. Evolution & Development 8:94-100.
Franz-Odendaal TA, Hall BK, and Witten PE. 2006. Buried alive – how osteoblasts become osteocytes. Developmental Dynamics 235:176-190.
2004
Franz-Odendaal TA and Solounias N. 2004. Comparative dietary evaluations of an extinct giraffid (Sivatherium hendeyi) (Mammalia, Giraffidae, Sivatheriinae) from Langebaanweg, South Africa (Early Pliocene). Geodiversitas 26:4:675-685.
Franz-Odendaal TA. 2004. Enamel hypoplasia provides insights into early systemic stress in wild and captive giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis). Journal of Zoology (London) 263: 197-206.
Kaiser TM and Franz-Odendaal TA. 2004. A mixed feeding Equus species from the Middle Pleistocene of South Africa. Quaternary Research 62: 316-323.
Franz-Odendaal TA, Chinsamy A, and Lee-Thorp JA. 2004. High prevalence of enamel hypoplasia in an Early Pliocene giraffid (Sivatherium hendeyi) from South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24: 235-244.
2003
Franz-Odendaal TA and Kaiser TM. 2003. Differential mesowear in the maxillary and mandibular cheek dentition of some ruminants (Artiodactyla). Annales Zoologici Fennici 40: 395-410.
Franz-Odendaal TA, Kaiser TM, and Bernor R. 2003. Systematics and dietary evaluation of a fossil equid from South Africa. South African Journal of Science 99: 453-459.
Franz-Odendaal TA, Lee-Thorp JA, and Chinsamy A. 2003. Insights from stable isotopes on enamel defects and weaning in Pliocene herbivores. Journal of Biosciences 28:6:101-109.
2002
Franz-Odendaal TA, Lee-Thorp JA, and Chinsamy A. 2002. New evidence for the lack of C4 grassland expansions during the Early Pliocene at Langebaanweg, South Africa. Paleobiology 28:3: 378-388.
2001
Franz-Odendaal TA. 2001. Environmental stress five million years ago on the West Coast of South Africa? Science in Africa web-based publication (www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2001/june/fossils.htm).
Late 1990s
Greenberg J, Franz TA, Goliath R, and Ramesar R. 1999. A photoreceptor gene mutation in an indigenous Black African family with retinitis pigmentosa identified using a rapid screening approach for common rhodopsin mutations. South African Medical Journal 89:8:877-878.
Franz TA and Kidson SH. 1997. Mapping of interdigital apoptosis in the chick and duck hindlimb. South African Journal of Science 93: 85-88.
April CS, Franz TA, and Kidson SH. 1996. The cloning and characterization of chick tyrosinase from a novel embryonic cDNA library. Experimental Cell Research 224: 372-378.
The Palaeontological Association Newsletter Publications: 2003-2006
Franz-Odendaal, TA, Hall BK, Budney, LA and Vickaryous MK. 2006. Modularity in Paleontology: Subunit 2. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 61: 23-26.
Budney L, Fedak, T, Franz-Odendaal, TA, Hall, BK, and Vickaryous, MK. 2006. A Module on Modularity in Evo-Devo. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 60: 10-12.
Legere J, Handrigan G, Budney L, Cole A, Fedak T, Franz-Odendaal TA, Vickaryous M, Witten PE, and Hall BK. 2005. Something Old, Something New: Inferring Developmental Mode from the Fossil Record. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 58: 26-31.
Fedak T, Franz-Odendaal TA, Hall BK and Vickaryous M. 2004. Epigenetics: The context of development. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 56: 44-49.
Witten E, Huysseune A, Franz-Odendaal TA, Fedak T, Vickaryous M, Cole A, and Hall BK. 2004. Acellular teleost bone: dead or alive, primitive or derived. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 55: 37-41.
Franz-Odendaal TA, Cole A, Fedak T, Vickaryous M, and Hall BK. 2003. Inside and Outside Skeletons. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 54:17-21.
Fedak T, Franz-Odendaal TA, Hall BK, Stone J, and Vickaryous M. 2003. Dusting off bone ontologies: considering skeletons in the palaeo-closet. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 53: 48-51.