| From extant to extinct: locomotor ontogeny and the evolution of avian flight AM Heers, KP Dial Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27 (5), 296-305, 2012 | 111 | 2012 |
| Ontogenetic and evolutionary transformations: the ecological significance of rudimentary structures KP Dial, AM Heers, TR Dial Great transformations in Vertebrate Evolution, 283-301, 2015 | 89* | 2015 |
| Wings versus legs in the avian bauplan: Development and evolution of alternative locomotor strategies AM Heers, KP Dial Evolution 69 (2), 305-320, 2015 | 75 | 2015 |
| Ontogeny of lift and drag production in ground birds AM Heers, BW Tobalske, KP Dial Journal of Experimental Biology 214 (5), 717-725, 2011 | 65 | 2011 |
| Flapping before flight: high resolution, three-dimensional skeletal kinematics of wings and legs during avian development AM Heers, DB Baier, BE Jackson, KP Dial PLoS One 11 (4), e0153446, 2016 | 55 | 2016 |
| Ontogeny of aerodynamics in mallards: comparative performance and developmental implications TR Dial, AM Heers, BW Tobalske Journal of Experimental Biology 215 (21), 3693-3702, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| From baby birds to feathered dinosaurs: incipient wings and the evolution of flight AM Heers, KP Dial, BW Tobalske Paleobiology 40 (3), 459-476, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| Building a bird: musculoskeletal modeling and simulation of wing-assisted incline running during avian ontogeny AM Heers, JW Rankin, JR Hutchinson Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 6, 140, 2018 | 29 | 2018 |
| New perspectives on the ontogeny and evolution of avian locomotion AM Heers Integrative and Comparative Biology 56 (3), 428-441, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Methods of studying early theropod flight M Pittman, AM Heers, FJ Serrano, DJ Field, MB Habib, TA Dececchi, ... | 10 | 2020 |
| Multiple functional solutions during flightless to flight-capable transitions AM Heers, SL Varghese, LK Hatier, JJ Cabrera Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8, 573411, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Flight and locomotion AM Heers Ornithology: Foundation, analysis, and application, 273-308, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| Evolution of visual performance-associated genes in Drosophila M Friedrich eLS, 2010 | 5* | 2010 |
| Birth and the pathway to adulthood: integration across development, environment, and evolution CJ Mayerl, TR Dial, MC Mainwaring, AM Heers, RZ German Integrative and Comparative Biology 63 (3), 548-556, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ontogeny of aerodynamics in Mallard ducks: comparative performance and developmental implications TR Dial, AM Heers, BW Tobalske Integrative and Comparative Biology 52, E45-E45, 2012 | 2 | 2012 |
| Small deviations in kinematics and body form dictate muscle performances in the finely tuned avian downstroke ME Deetjen, DD Chin, AM Heers, BW Tobalske, D Lentink Elife 12, RP89968, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Unexpected performance in developing birds AM Heers Integrative and Comparative Biology 63 (3), 772-784, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
| Where is WAIR (and other wing-assisted behaviours)? Essentially everywhere: a response to Kuznetsov and Panyutina (2022) AM Heers, BW Tobalske, BE Jackson, KP Dial Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 137 (1), 157-162, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Waxing and Waning of Wings KP Dial, AM Heers Trends in Ecology & Evolution 36 (5), 457-470, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Building a bird: ontogenetic and evolutionary construction of the avian body plan AM Heers, JR Hutchinson Integrative and Comparative Biology 55, 2015 | 1 | 2015 |
