Publications

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Peer-reviewed articles:

2023 Provini, P., Camp, A. L. and Crandell, K. E. Emerging biological insights enabled by high-resolution 3D motion data: promises, perspectives and pitfalls. Journal of Experimental Biology 226, jeb245138.

2023 Kazemi A, Kesba M, Provini P. Realistic three-dimensional avian vocal tract model demonstrates how shape affects sound filtering (Passer domesticus). Royal Society Interface. 20, 198. 

2022 Leblanc K, Pintore R, Galão A, Heitz E, Provini P. Foot adaptation to climbing in oven birds and woodcreepers (Furnariida). Journal of Anatomy. 242, 607–626.

2022 Provini, P., Brunet A., Filippo A., Van Wassenbergh S. In vivo intraoral waterflow quantification reveals hidden mechanisms of suction feeding in fish. eLife. 11:e736211 

2020 Provini, P. , Höfling E. To Hop or Not to Hop? The Answer Is in the Bird Trees. Systematic Biology.  69(5), 962-972 

2019 Abourachid, A., Castro, I., and Provini, P. How to walk carrying a huge egg? Trade-offs between locomotion and reproduction explain the special pelvis and leg anatomy in kiwi (Aves; Apteryx spp.). Journal of Anatomy, 235(6), 1045-1056. 

2018 Provini, P. and Van Wassenbergh, S. Hydrodynamic performance of suction feeding is virtually unaffected by variation in the shape of the posterior region of the pharynx in fish. Royal Society Open Science 5(9): 181249

2018 Provini, P. and Abourachid, A. Whole-body 3D kinematics of bird take-off: key role of the legs to propel the trunk The Science of Nature 105: 12 

2014 Provini, P., Tobalske, B.W., Crandell, K.E., and Abourachid, A. Transition from wing to leg forces during landing in birds. Journal of experimental biology 217: 2659-2666 pdf

2013 Provini, P. Study on the pelvic system of birds and on the origin of flight. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 32 (2): 405-411

2013 Provini, P., Simonis-Sueur, C., and Abourachid, A. Functional implications of the intertarsal joint shape in a terrestrial bird (Coturnix coturnix) versus a semi-aquatic bird (Callonetta leucophrys). Journal of Zoology, 290: 12-18 

2012 Provini, P., Tobalske, B.W., Crandell, K.E., and Abourachid, A. Transition from leg to wing forces during take-off in birds. Journal of Experimental Biology, 215: 4115-4124 

2012 Provini, P., Goupil, P., Hugel, V., and Abourachid, A. 2012. Walking, paddling, waddling: 3D kinematics of Anatidae locomotion (Callonetta leucophrys). Journal of Experimental Zoology, 317:275–282

2011 Abourachid A., Hackert R., Herbin M., Libourel P.A., Lambert F., Gioanni H., Provini P., Blazevic P., and Hugel V. Bird terrestrial locomotion as revealed by 3D kinematics. Zoology 114: 360-368

2009 Provini P., Zhou Z.H., and Zhang F.C. A new species of the basal bird Sapeornis from the early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 47: 194-207 

Abstracts:

2021 Delamare I, Olson R, Provini P. How do birds modulate sound with their vocal tract? Integrative and Comparative Biology 61, E191-E192

2020 Provini P. Birdsong for human (e) voices: Building efficient voice prostheses inspired from bird vocal system [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60, E191

2019 Provini P, Brunet A, Van Wassenbergh S. Look into a fish mouth: 3D X-ray particle tracking adapted to intra-oral hydrodynamics in fish feeding [Abstract]. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 22(1): S80‑81

2019 Provini P, Brunet A, Van Wassenbergh S. 3D-X-ray Particle Tracking Method: Inside a fish's mouth during suction feeding [Abstract]. Journal of Morphology 280, S57

2019 Provini P, Brunet A, Van Wassenbergh S. Intra-oral hydrodynamics of suction feeding in fishes [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59, E186

2018 Provini P, Van Wassenbergh S. Suction outflow dynamics in fishes: effects of the shape of the pharynx and pectoral region of the body [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58, E181

2018 Provini P, Höfling E, Evolution of Hopping and Arboreality in Neotropical Birds [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58, E399

2013 Provini P, Pansiot J, Reveret, L and Martin O. Video-based methodology for markerless human motion analysis. In International Congress Association des Chercheurs en Activités Physiques et Sportives

2013 Provini P., Biewener A., and Abourachid A. The 3D kinematics of the trunk and hindlimbs during takeoff and landing in zebra finch [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology  53: E173

2012 Provini P., Abourachid A. Relative role of hindlimbs and forelimbs during take-off and landing in different species of birds [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology  52: E141

2011 Provini P, Abourachid A. Leg thrust forces in zebra finches during take-off and landing on non-level perches [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51: E112