Sophie Sanchez
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Evolution and Development
- E-mail:
- sophie.sanchez@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum EBC Norbyv. 18A
- Postal address:
- Norbyv. 18A
752 36 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Journal of Anatomy, p. 665-681, 2025
- DOI for Microstructure and development of the dermal ossicles of Antarctopelta oliveroi (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria): A complex morphogenetic system deciphered through three-dimensional X-ray microtomography
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Investigating the Morphogenesis and Replacement of Lamprey Toothlets Using Synchrotron Imaging
Part of Journal of morphology, 2025
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Acquisition of neural crest promoted thyroid evolution from chordate endostyle
Part of Science Advances, 2025
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2024
- DOI for The Sensory Shark: High-quality Morphological, Genomic and Transcriptomic Data for the Small-spotted Catshark Scyliorhinus Canicula Reveal the Molecular Bases of Sensory Organ Evolution in Jawed Vertebrates
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Part of Science, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Journal of Anatomy, p. 665-681, 2025
- DOI for Microstructure and development of the dermal ossicles of Antarctopelta oliveroi (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria): A complex morphogenetic system deciphered through three-dimensional X-ray microtomography
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Acquisition of neural crest promoted thyroid evolution from chordate endostyle
Part of Science Advances, 2025
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2024
- DOI for The Sensory Shark: High-quality Morphological, Genomic and Transcriptomic Data for the Small-spotted Catshark Scyliorhinus Canicula Reveal the Molecular Bases of Sensory Organ Evolution in Jawed Vertebrates
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Part of Science, 2023
Part of Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
- DOI for Enhanced contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography for describing skeleton-associated soft tissue defects in zebrafish mutants
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Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2022
The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring
Part of Nature, p. 91-94, 2022
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Exceptional preservation of organs in Devonian placoderms from the Gogo lagerstätte
Part of Science, p. 1311-1314, 2022
Fossilized cell structures identify an ancient origin for the teleost whole-genome duplication
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
New light shed on the early evolution of limb-bone growth plate and bone marrow
Part of eLIFE, 2021
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The emergence of a complex pore-canal system in the dermal skeleton of Tremataspis (Osteostraci)
Part of Journal of morphology, p. 1141-1157, 2021
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Part of Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020
- DOI for Limb-bone development of seymouriamorphs: implications for the evolution of growth strategy in stem amniotes
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Part of eLIFE, 2020
- DOI for The developmental relationship between teeth and dermal odontodes in the most primitive bony fish Lophosteus
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Secondary ossification center induces and protects growth plate structure
Part of eLIFE, 2020
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Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 808-830, 2020
Part of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2020
- DOI for The evolution of dermal shield vascularization in Testudinata and Pseudosuchia: phylogenetic constraints versus ecophysiological adaptations
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Long-bone development and life-history traits of the Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria lindae
Part of Earth and environmental science transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 75-86, 2019
Wing bone geometry reveals active flight in Archaeopteryx
Part of Nature Communications, 2018
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Part of Nature Communications, 2018
- DOI for A diminutive perinate European Enantiornithes reveals an asynchronous ossification pattern in early birds
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2018
- DOI for 3D Maps of Mineral Composition and Hydroxyapatite Orientation in Fossil Bone Samples Obtained by X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography
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Part of Biological Reviews, p. 1189-1212, 2017
Vascularization and odontode structure of a dorsal ridge spine of Romundina stellina Ørvig 1975
Part of PLOS ONE, 2017
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2017
- DOI for The internal cranial anatomy of Romundina stellina Orvig, 1975 (Vertebrata, Placodermi, Acanthothoraci) and the origin of jawed vertebrates: Anatomical atlas of a primitive gnathostome
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Part of Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 2017
Part of Palaeontologia Electronica, 2017
- DOI for Morphology and histology of acanthodian fin spines from the late Silurian Ramsåsa E locality, Skåne, Sweden
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Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic Devonian vertebrate Palaeospondylus
Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2017
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Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2017
- DOI for Development of cyclic shedding teeth from semi-shedding teeth: the inner dental arcade of the stem osteichthyan Lophosteus
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Biological and physical evidence for extreme seasonality in central Permian Pangea
Part of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p. 210-226, 2016
Part of PeerJ, 2016
- DOI for Three-dimensional paleohistology of the scale and median fin spine of Lophosteus superbus (Pander 1856)
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Life history of the stem tetrapod Acanthostega revealed by synchrotron microtomography
Part of Nature, p. 408-+, 2016
The stem osteichthyan Andreolepis and the origin of tooth replacement
Part of Nature, p. 237-+, 2016
Part of Journal of morphology, p. 873-888, 2015
A primitive placoderm sheds light on the origin of the jawed vertebrate face
Part of Nature, p. 500-503, 2014
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 20140299, 2014
New insights into the scales of the Devonian tetrapod Tulerpeton curtum Lebedev, 1984
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, p. 1454-1459, 2014
Part of Evolution & Development, p. 123-124, 2014
Part of Annales de Paléontologie, p. 131-135, 2014
Fossil Musculature of the Most Primitive Jawed Vertebrates
Part of Science, p. 160-164, 2013
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Scales and Tooth Whorls of Ancient Fishes Challenge Distinction between External and Oral 'Teeth'
Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
- DOI for 3D Microstructural Architecture of Muscle Attachments in Extant and Fossil Vertebrates Revealed by Synchrotron Microtomography
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Vertebral architecture in the earliest stem tetrapods
Part of Nature, p. 226-229, 2013
Part of Nature Protocols, p. 1708-1717, 2013
Part of Evolutionary biology, p. 627-647, 2013
- DOI for Bone Histology Reveals a High Environmental and Metabolic Plasticity as a Successful Evolutionary Strategy in a Long-Lived Homeostatic Triassic Temnospondyl
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Part of Microscopy and Microanalysis, p. 1095-1105, 2012
Part of Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, p. 509-515, 2012
Part of Comptes rendus. Palevol, p. 617-625, 2011
Part of Comptes rendus. Palevol, p. 311-317, 2010
Part of Comptes rendus. Palevol, p. 369-375, 2010
Articles, review/survey
Investigating the Morphogenesis and Replacement of Lamprey Toothlets Using Synchrotron Imaging
Part of Journal of morphology, 2025
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Conference papers
Fossil early vertebrates shed lights on the origin of the gnathostome face
Part of Program and Abstracts of the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, p. 245-245, 2013
The Placoderm Romundina and the Origin of the Gnathostome Face
2013
The Placoderm Romundina and the Origin of the Gnathostome Face
Part of The Making of a Vertebrate, p. 110-111, 2013
Part of Program and abstracts, p. 118-118, 2013
2013
Part of Programme and Abstracts, p. 21-21, 2013
Part of Program and Abstracts, p. 103-103, 2013
2013
p. 68-68, 2012
p. 19-19, 2012
The affinity of Lophosteus and the evolution of osteichthyan characters
p. 12-13, 2011
The affinity of Lophosteus and the evolution of osteichthyan characters
p. 12-13, 2011
Part of Abstracts, p. 6-6, 2011
Affinities of Lophosteus and the origin of the osteichthyan body plan
2011
Part of CAVEPS Perth 2011, p. 30-30, 2011
Fossil bone histology revealed in 3D thanks to the synchrotron light: palaeobiological implications
2011
2011
Three-dimensional histology of tooth cushions of Lophosteus from the Upper Silurian of Estonia
Part of Abstracts, p. 5-6, 2011
p. 154-154, 2010