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BALCARCEL, A. M., FABRE, A. C., ORLIAC, M. J., VERGER, K. L., SELBA, M. C., HIPSLEY, C. A. & EVIN, A. (2026): Mosaic evolution and increased integration underpin the evolvability of the dog brain. – Evolution 80 (4): 735-750 | https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag002.

MUREAU, C., D’OLIVEIRA, L., PEYRON, O., BLAISE, E., RENAUD, A., BALCARCEL, A., JEANJEAN, M., BONHOMME, V., BOUBY, L., ROS, J. & EVIN, A. (2025): 8,000 years of wild and domestic animal body size data reveal long-term synchrony and recent divergence due to intensified human impact. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS 122 (36): e2503428122.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2503428122

JEANJEAN, M., MUREAU, C., CLAUDE, J., BALCARCEL, A. & EVIN, A. (2025): Two species, two stories: divergent morphometric evolution of sheep and goats over the last 8000 years. – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B – Biological Sciences 380 (1926): 20240514.
Free access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0514.

BALCARCEL, A. M., SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, M. R., EVIN, A., NUSSBAUMER, M., HEMELSDAËL, A. & GEIGER, M. (2024): Breed function and behaviour correlate with endocranial volume in domestic dogs. – Biology Letters 20 (11): 20240342.
Free access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0342

BALCARCEL, A. M., GEIGER, M. & SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, M. R. (2024): Cranial form differences in goats by breed and domestic status. – Scientific Reports 14: 917.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50357-0

VOGLINO, D., CARRILLO-BRICEñO, J. D., FURRER, H., BALCARCEL, A., RANGEL-DE LAZARO, G., AGUIRRE FERNÁNDEZ, G. & FORASIEPI, A. M. (2023): Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth. – Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142 (1): 25.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00283-5

BALCARCEL, A. M., BASTIAANS, D. & ORLIAC, M. J. (2023): Endocranial casts of Camelops hesternus and Palaeolama sp.: new insights into the recent history of the camelid brain. – Brain Behavior and Evolution 98 (2): 107-120.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1159/000528762

BALCARCEL, A. M. (2022): Cranial and Brain Evolution in Late Pleistocene and Domesticated Artiodactyls. – Dissertation, Universität Zürich | https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-232474.

BALCARCEL, A. M., GEIGER, M., CLAUSS, M. & SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, M. R. (2022): The mammalian brain under domestication: discovering patterns after a century of old and new analyses. – Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 338 (8): 460-483.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23105

ORLIAC, M. J., MAUGOUST, J., BALCARCEL, A. & GILISSEN, E. (2022): Paleoneurology of Artiodactyla, an overview of the evolution of the artiodactyl brain. – In: DOZO, M. T., PAULINA-CARABAJAL, A., MACRINI, T. E. & WALSH, S. (Eds.). Paleoneurology of amniotes: new directions in the study of fossil endocasts. Cham, Springer. – 507-555 | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13983-3_14.

BALCARCEL, A. M., VEITSCHEGGER, K., CLAUSS, M. & SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, M. R. (2021): Intensive human contact correlates with smaller brains: differential brain size reduction in cattle types. – Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B – Biological Sciences 288 (1952): 20210813.
Free access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0813

 BALCARCEL, A. M., SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, M. R., SEGURA, V. & EVIN, A. (2021): Singular patterns of skull shape and brain size change in the domestication of South American camelids. – Journal of Mammalogy 102 (1): 220-235 | https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaa135.

WILSON, L. A. B., BALCARCEL, A., GEIGER, M., HECK, L. & SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, M. R. (2021): Modularity patterns in mammalian domestication: Assessing developmental hypotheses for diversification. – Evolution Letters 5 (4): 385-396.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.231

LYNCH, S., SÁNCHEZ-VILLAGRA, M. R. & BALCARCEL, A. (2020): Description of a fossil camelid from the Pleistocene of Argentina, and a cladistic analysis of the Camelinae. – Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 139 (1): 8.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-020-00208-6

CONRAD, J. L., BALCARCEL, A. M. & MEHLING, C. M. (2012): Earliest Example of a Giant Monitor Lizard (Varanus, Varanidae, Squamata). – PLOS One 7 (8): e41767.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041767

BALCARCEL, A. M. (2010): Volcaniclastic matrix: methods, problems, and solutions of extraction. – The Geological Curator 9 (3): 221-225.
Open Access: https://www.geocollections.org/journal/100-browse-issues/49-the-geological-curator-volume-9