Tom Stewart
Assistant Professor of Biology

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219 Mueller Lab
University Park, PA - tomstewart@psu.edu
Research Summary
Evolutionary and developmental approaches to ask: how does morphological novelty evolve, and what are the causes of major evolutionary transitions?
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Vertebrates Extremities Fins Skeleton Food Birds Sapajus Tandem Repeat Sequences Mastication Food Processing Galectins Limb Fish Vertebrate Developmental Membranes Skin Tetrapod Limbs (Animal) Anatomy Appendages Bone And Bones Catfishes Phylogeny FishesMost Recent Publications
The origin of blinking in both mudskippers and tetrapods is linked to life on land
Brett R. Aiello, M. Saad Bhamla, Jeff Gau, John G.L. Morris, Kenji Bomar, Shashwati da Cunha, Harrison Fu, Julia Laws, Hajime Minoguchi, Manognya Sripathi, Kendra Washington, Gabriella Wong, Neil H. Shubin, Simon Sponberg, Thomas A. Stewart, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
A new elpistostegalian from the Late Devonian of the Canadian Arctic
Thomas A. Stewart, Justin B. Lemberg, Ailis Daly, Edward B. Daeschler, Neil H. Shubin, 2022, Nature on p. 563-568
Fin ray patterns at the fin-to-limb transition
Thomas A. Stewart, Justin B. Lemberg, Natalia K. Taft, Ihna Yoo, Edward B. Daeschler, Neil H. Shubin, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 1612-1620
Adipose fin development and its relation to the evolutionary origins of median fins
Thomas A. Stewart, Melvin M. Bonilla, Robert K. Ho, Melina E. Hale, 2019, Scientific Reports
Evidence against tetrapod-wide digit identities and for a limited frame shift in bird wings
Thomas A. Stewart, Cong Liang, Justin L. Cotney, James P. Noonan, Thomas J. Sanger, Günter P. Wagner, 2019, Nature Communications
Perspectives on integrating genetic and physical explanations of evolution and development: An introduction to the symposium
Alan C. Love, Thomas A. Stewart, Gunter P. Wagner, Stuart A. Newman, 2017, Integrative and Comparative Biology on p. 1258-1268
The evolutionary origin of digit patterning
Thomas A. Stewart, Ramray Bhat, Stuart A. Newman, 2017, EvoDevo
In vivo bone strain in the mandibular corpus of Sapajus during a range of oral food processing behaviors
Callum F. Ross, Jose Iriarte-Diaz, David A. Reed, Thomas A. Stewart, Andrea B. Taylor, 2016, Journal of Human Evolution on p. 36-65
Deep phylogenomics of a tandem-repeat galectin regulating appendicular skeletal pattern formation
Ramray Bhat, Mahul Chakraborty, Tilmann Glimm, Thomas A. Stewart, Stuart A. Newman, 2016, BMC Evolutionary Biology
Mechanosensation in an adipose fin
Brett R. Aiello, Thomas A. Stewart, Melina E. Hale, 2016, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Most-Cited Papers
The origins of adipose fins: An analysis of homoplasy and the serial homology of vertebrate appendages
Thomas A. Stewart, W. Leo Smith, Michael I. Coates, 2014, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Mechanosensation in an adipose fin
Brett R. Aiello, Thomas A. Stewart, Melina E. Hale, 2016, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
In vivo bone strain in the mandibular corpus of Sapajus during a range of oral food processing behaviors
Callum F. Ross, Jose Iriarte-Diaz, David A. Reed, Thomas A. Stewart, Andrea B. Taylor, 2016, Journal of Human Evolution on p. 36-65
The evolutionary origin of digit patterning
Thomas A. Stewart, Ramray Bhat, Stuart A. Newman, 2017, EvoDevo
First description of a musculoskeletal linkage in an adipose fin: Innovations for active control in a primitively passive appendage
Thomas A. Stewart, Melina E. Hale, 2013, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Deep phylogenomics of a tandem-repeat galectin regulating appendicular skeletal pattern formation
Ramray Bhat, Mahul Chakraborty, Tilmann Glimm, Thomas A. Stewart, Stuart A. Newman, 2016, BMC Evolutionary Biology
Fin ray patterns at the fin-to-limb transition
Thomas A. Stewart, Justin B. Lemberg, Natalia K. Taft, Ihna Yoo, Edward B. Daeschler, Neil H. Shubin, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 1612-1620
Evidence against tetrapod-wide digit identities and for a limited frame shift in bird wings
Thomas A. Stewart, Cong Liang, Justin L. Cotney, James P. Noonan, Thomas J. Sanger, Günter P. Wagner, 2019, Nature Communications
Adipose fin development and its relation to the evolutionary origins of median fins
Thomas A. Stewart, Melvin M. Bonilla, Robert K. Ho, Melina E. Hale, 2019, Scientific Reports
The origin of a new fin skeleton through tinkering
Thomas A. Stewart, 2015, Biology Letters