LE MAITRE Anne

Postdoctoral researcher
Associated member

Main research question

My primary research interest is in the comprehension of the developmental and evolutionary mechanisms underlying body morphology in vertebrates and especially in primates.

Topics of study

For this, I use diverse quantification tools and multivariate statistics to explore the morphological diversity in extant and fossil species.

My current focus is on the morphological variability, integration and evolvability of the ear in modern and fossil vertebrates, as part of the FWF project “Evolvability of inner and middle ears in birds and mammals”.

I also work on morpho-functional, ontogenetic and phylogenetic aspects of the bony labyrinth and its integration within the cranial base of primates.

Fieldworks

I participate to palaeontological excavations in Pleistocene deposits in northern Greece (PIs Dimitris S. Kostopoulos and Gildas Merceron) and in Eocene deposits in Burma (PI Jean-Jacques Jaeger).

Other connections

Postdoctoral researcher at the Unit for Theoretical Biology of the Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Austria (Austrian Science Fundation – FWF project P33736, PI Philipp Mitteröcker) – https://theoretical.univie.ac.at/
Lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria – https://lifesciences.univie.ac.at/
Member of the European Society of Human Evolution (ESHE) – https://www.eshe.eu/

Other responsibilities

Board member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) – https://www.sapweb.fr/index.php/en/
Member of the Editorial Committee of the Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris (BMSAP) – https://journals.openedition.org/bmsap/?lang=en
Member of Media & Communication team of Women in Biology (WoBio) at the University of Vienna, Austria – https://wobio.univie.ac.at/

Find out more

Adress: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Unit for Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 (0)1.4277.56708
e-mail: anne.le.maitre@univie.ac.at
Website: https://theoretical.univie.ac.at/people/associated-scientists-and-postdocs/anne-le-maitre/
ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne_Le_Maitre2
ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2690-7367

Iconic publications

Le Maître A, Guy F, Merceron G, Kostopoulos DS. (2022) Morphology of the bony labyrinth supports the affinities of Paradolichopithecus with the Papionina. International Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1007/s10764-022-00329-4

Grunstra NDS, Bartsch S, Le Maître A, Mitteroecker P. (2021) Detecting phylogenetic signal and adaptation in papionin cranial shape by decomposing variation at different spatial scales. Systematic Biology, 70(4), 694–706. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa093

Morlo M, Le Maître A, Bastl K, Engel T, Lutz H, Lischewsky B, von Berg A, Nagel D. (2021) First record of the mustelid Trochictis (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the early Late Miocene (MN 9/10) of Germany and a re-appraisal of the genus Trochictis. Historical Biology, 33(8), 1183–1195. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2019.1683172

Le Maître A, Grunstra NDS, Pfaff C, Mitteroecker P. (2020) Evolution of the mammalian ear: An evolvability hypothesis. Evolutionary Biology, 47, 187–192. DOI:10.1007/s11692-020-09502-0

Mitteroecker P, Bartsch S, Grunstra NDS, Le Maître A, Matiasch C, Bookstein FL. (2020) Morphometric variation at different spatial scales: Coordination and compensation in the emergence of organismal form. Systematic Biology, 69(5), 913–926. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syaa007

Jaeger J-J, Chavasseau O, Lazzari V, Soe AN, Sein C, Le Maître A, Shwe H, Chaimanee Y. (2019) New Eocene primate from Myanmar shares dental characters with African Eocene crown anthropoids. Nature Communications, 10(1), 3531. DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-11295-6

Le Maître A. (2019) Role of spatial integration in the morphology of the bony labyrinth in modern humans. BMSAP, 31, 34–42. DOI:10.3166/bmsap-2018-0039

Le Maître A, Mitteorecker P. (2019) Multivariate comparison of variance in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(9), 1380–1392. DOI:10.1111/2041-210X.13253

Le Maître A, Schuetz P, Vignaud P, Brunet M. (2017) New data about semicircular canal morphology and locomotion in modern hominoids. Journal of Anatomy, 231(1), 95–109. DOI:10.1111/joa.12619

Software

Le Maître A, Bartsch S, Grunstra NDS, Mitteroecker P. (2020) prWarp: Warping Landmark Configurations. R package version 1.0.0. https://cran.r-project.org/package=prWarp

Le Maître A, Mitteroecker P. (2020) vcvComp: Comparison of Variance-Covariance Patterns. R package version 1.0.2. https://cran.r-project.org/package=vcvComp